Definition of eldritch
: strange or unnatural especially in a way that inspires fear : weird, eerie
And the woman, whose voice had risen to a kind of eldritch singsong, turned with a skip, and was gone.— Robert Louis Stevenson … the film works its whimsically eldritch spell through inspired casting, brilliant editing, and subtly astonishing special effects …— Ty Burr
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The first known use of eldritch was in 1508
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