changeling

[ UK /t‍ʃˈe‍ɪnd‍ʒlɪŋ/ ]
NOUN
  1. a person of subnormal intelligence
  2. a child secretly exchanged for another in infancy
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How To Use changeling In A Sentence

  • Margaret's was the last royal birth which needed to be witnessed by a government minister, a remnant of the days when changelings were smuggled in on warming pans.
  • As in the Bard's plot, there is the Fairy King Oberon at odds over a changeling boy with his Fairy Queen Titanis and a number of starcrossed lovers in The Faerie Queen.
  • It was simply the shell, the deceptive outer human form of an aberration, a changeling, a demon. AFTERMATH
  • The book covers such areas as locations associated with fairy sightings, fairy enchantments, changelings, the post-Reformation demonization of folk belief, fairies in literature, and Robert Kirk and the reinstatement of fairy belief. Myths and Scottish Fairies
  • Not us, Quark said in a tone suggesting the changeling was a Pakled. MILLENNIUM
  • He was then turned into a Changeling, namely Jesus, who is allegorically represented on stage as Bottom/Pyramus and crucified in a series of actions that the playwright has taken straight from the Gospels .... Shakespeare Controversies
  • A whole generation of children with enhanced intelligence wipe out all the adults via bacteria, and these superbright changelings go hunting the remnants that haven't been killed outright. Superhero Prose Fiction: Unique - Karl and the Ogre
  • But David was just supposed to be a mechanical changeling.
  • I think that it came after Lord of Light (I can check later), but I have this grotty old paperback copy of a book called "Changeling". REVIEW: Doorways in the Sand by Roger Zelazny
  • But the swordsman is really a semi retired computer scientist of the first rank, the sword is tipped with a wormhole a la Morgaine's Changeling, and the talking cat is really the avatar of a planet-sized AI ... MIND MELD: The Best Genre Related Books/Films/Shows/Games Consumed In 2008 (Part III)
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