Agnize vs Agonize - What's the difference?
agnize | agonize |
(archaic) To recognise; to acknowledge.
* 1603 ?, William Shakespeare, Othello :
To writhe with agony; to suffer violent anguish.
* (Alexander Pope):
To struggle; to wrestle; to strive desperately.
* 1898 , , (Moonfleet), chapter 3:
As verbs the difference between agnize and agonize
is that agnize is (archaic) to recognise; to acknowledge while agonize is to writhe with agony; to suffer violent anguish.agnize
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* agniseVerb
(en-verb)- I do agnisz / A natural and prompt alacrity / I find in hardness.
agonize
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* agoniseVerb
(agoniz)- To smart and agonize at every pore.
- So I took a last stare round, agonizing to see if there was any way of escape; but the stone walls and roof were solid enough to crush me, and the stack of casks too closely packed to hide more than a rat.