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Viol vs Vile - What's the difference?

Viol | Vile | homophones |

Viol is a homophone of Vile.


As a noun Viol

is a viola da gamba, a family of musical instruments that preceded the violin and viola and similar string instruments.

As a verb Viol

is to play the viol.

As an adjective Vile is

morally low; base; despicable.

Viol

English

(wikipedia viol)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A viola da gamba, a family of musical instruments that preceded the violin and viola and similar string instruments

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To play the viol.
  • * (Sir Walter Scott)
    • “Keep your gold for those who lack it, mistress,” said Henry, “and do not offer to honest hands the money that is won by violing , and tabouring, and toetripping, and perhaps worse pastimes.
  • * (Thomas Hardy)
    • Through snowy woods and shady / We went to play a tune / To the lonely manor-lady / By the light of the Christmas moon. / We violed till, upward glancing / To where a mirror leaned, / It showed her airily dancing
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    Vile

    English

    Adjective

    (en-adj)
  • morally low; base; despicable

    • Synonyms

    * base * despicable * mean * ignoble

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