scarefire

noun

scarefire

noun

Etymology From scare + fire. In some senses, alteration of scathefire.

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Obsolete A fire causing alarm, i.e. a house-burning; conflagration; scathefire.

Scarefire of Purgatory1642, Thomas Fuller, The Holy State, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] Roger Daniel for John Williams, […], →OCLC:

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