Levin

Pronunciation

• UK IPA: /ˈlÉ›vɪn/

Origin

Origin uncertain.

Full definition of levin

Noun

1. (archaic) Lightning; a bolt of lightning; also, a bright flame or light.
• c1280, Anonymous, w Chapter Godrich Displays Great Prowess, And forth rith al so leuin fares.
• 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.5:neither blood in face nor life in hart
  It left, but both did quite drye up and blast;
  As piercing levin, which the inner part
  Of every thing consumes, and calcineth by art.
• 1847, Charlotte Brontë, w Chapter , I cannot tell; but I think if some of those amongst whom he hurls the Greek fire of his sarcasm, and over whom he flashes the levin-brand of his denunciation, were to take his warnings in time — they or their seed might escape a fatal Ramoth-Gilead.

Anagrams

• liven
• Nevil