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- Anglo-Saxon runic alphabet
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: any of the characters of any of several alphabets used by the Germanic peoples from about the 3rd to the 13th centuries
Examples of rune in a Sentence
wrote many mournful runes after her lover's untimely death
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Well, except for a corpse that washed up with a disturbing message delivered in a disturbing fashion, runes carved on his chest.
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Keith Phipps, Vulture, 19 Sep. 2024
Elements of past games are included here, like runes that can boost your abilities, damage types that inflict various status ailments, and an array of enemy factions and types.
—Hayes Madsen, Rolling Stone, 28 Oct. 2024
The memorandum claims that evidence at the crime scene supports Odinist practices, including symbols in the form of runes.
—Virginia Black, The Indianapolis Star, 17 Oct. 2024
One of the last scenes of season 2 finds these two mystics sitting by a campfire and singing songs as Gandalf’s signature rune appears in the stars above.
—Christian Holub, EW.com, 3 Oct. 2024
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Keith Phipps, Vulture, 19 Sep. 2024
Elements of past games are included here, like runes that can boost your abilities, damage types that inflict various status ailments, and an array of enemy factions and types.
—Hayes Madsen, Rolling Stone, 28 Oct. 2024
The memorandum claims that evidence at the crime scene supports Odinist practices, including symbols in the form of runes.
—Virginia Black, The Indianapolis Star, 17 Oct. 2024
One of the last scenes of season 2 finds these two mystics sitting by a campfire and singing songs as Gandalf’s signature rune appears in the stars above.
—Christian Holub, EW.com, 3 Oct. 2024
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“Rune.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/rune. Accessed 1 Dec. 2024.
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