Noun: shadow-stalker
| Singular | shadow-stalker |
| Plural | shadow-stalkers |
Sample Sentences
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In the wan darkness, while the warriors slept, the shadow-stalker drew near from the moorland. [1898, Stopford A. Brooke, English literature: From the Beginning to the Norman Conquest, New York: The Macmillan Company, page 73:]
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[T]he shadow-stalker will not draw anyone down to the shades unless God wills it. [1952, John A. Nist, The Structure and Texture of Beowulf, London: Faber and Faber, page 53:]
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The out of the night
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came the shadow-stalker, stealthy and swift. [1999, Seamus Heaney, Beowulf, London: Faber and Faber, page 23:]
Nouns inflected like shadow-stalker
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Alliterative literary calque of Old English sceadugenga, from sceadu (“shadow”) + genga (“goer, walker”). See: Old English Nouns '
sceadugenga'.