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Abreption vs Obreption - What's the difference?

abreption | obreption |

In obsolete|lang=en terms the difference between abreption and obreption

is that abreption is (obsolete) a snatching away while obreption is (obsolete) the act of creeping upon with secrecy or by surprise.

As nouns the difference between abreption and obreption

is that abreption is (obsolete) a snatching away while obreption is (obsolete) the act of creeping upon with secrecy or by surprise.

abreption

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (obsolete) A snatching away.
  • * 1751 , , The Works of the Learned Benjamin Whichcote, D. D. , Alexander Thomson, Aberdeen, [http://books.google.ca/books?id=yi4HAAAAQAAJ&printsec=titlepage#PPA135,M1 p. 135]:
    • Who now and then are under an error, having failings, imperfections, and shortnesses . . . You never find these men are called Sinners''; neither are the infirmities of the regenerate, the sincere and upright-hearted called ''Sins , such as these sudden incursions and abreptions , when their thoughts are snatched away from them, either in praying or hearing.

    References

    * Oxford English Dictionary , 2nd ed., 1989.

    obreption

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) The act of creeping upon with secrecy or by surprise.
    • (Cudworth)
  • (obsolete, Scotland, legal) Act of obtaining gifts of escheat by fraud or surprise.
    • (Bell)
    (Webster 1913)