Fairytale Vocabulary Pt. 1
Assignation - Definition: An appointment to meet someone in secret, typically one made by lovers.
Bonny - Definition: Of a person (or occasionally an animal): pleasing in appearance, goodlooking; esp. (of a woman) pleasantly attractive (rather than stunningly beautiful), pretty. Sometimes also
of a person's appearance. Also used as a form of address or term of endearment.
Enchantment - Definition: The action or process of enchanting, or of employing magic or sorcery.
Expurgation - Definition: The action of cleansing from impurity (literal and figurative)
Faerie - Definition: A supernatural being or magical creature; a fairy.
Gleaned - Definition: transferred and figurative. To gather or pick up in small quantities; to
scrape together. Now chiefly with immaterial object, esp. to glean information, to
glean experience, etc.
Incarnate - Definition: Of a quality or other abstraction: Embodied in human form; impersonated.
Maun - Definition: Must.
Minuteness - Definition: Precision as to minute details; painstaking attention to detail;
critical exactness.
Perilous - Definition: Dangerous, hazardous, fraught with peril; causing or resulting in danger; risky. In
early use also: spiritually dangerous.
Philology - Definition: Love of learning and literature; the branch of knowledge that deals with the
historical, linguistic, interpretative, and critical aspects of literature; literary or classical scholarship.
Pygmie - Definition: gen. Any person of very small stature; a dwarf.
Sunder - Definition: To separate (two or more people or things) from one another
Trespasser - Definition: One who trespasses.