"eldritch" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1790, Robert Burns, Tam o' Shanter",
          "roman": "Wi' mony an eldritch skriech and hollo.",
          "text": "So Maggie runs, the witches follow,",
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          "ref": "1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne, chapter VII, in The Scarlet Letter",
          "text": "Pearl, in utter scorn of her mother's attempt to quiet her, gave an eldritch scream, and then became silent.",
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          "text": "The large vessel's dark form was massive, eldritch, as it loomed off the Cushing's port bow in the flash-lit darkness. This was the Hiei. The recognition of the battleship spread down the van, from the Cushing to the Laffey to the Sterett to the O'Bannon.",
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