Assoiled vs Assailed - What's the difference?
assoiled | assailed |
(assoil)
(archaic) To absolve, acquit; to release from blame or sin.
* Dr. H. More
* Jeremy Taylor
(archaic) To set free, release.
* 1590 , Edmund Spendser, The Faerie Queene , I.x:
To solve; to clear up.
* Bishop Jewel
To expiate; to atone for.
* E. Arnold
To remove; to put off.
* Spenser
(assail)
To attack violently using words or force.
As verbs the difference between assoiled and assailed
is that assoiled is past tense of assoil while assailed is past tense of assail.assoiled
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(head)assoil
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(en verb)- acquitted and assoiled from the guilt
- Many persons think themselves fairly assoiled , because they are not of scandalous lives.
- But first thou must a season fast and pray, / Till from her hands the spright assoiled is [...].
- Any child might soon be able to assoil this riddle.
- Let each act assoil a fault.
- (Spenser)
- She soundly slept, and careful thoughts did quite assoil .
assailed
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(head)assail
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(en verb)- Muggers assailed them as they entered an alley.
- For the next six months or so those children will assail her in public with demands for an improper story! (from H.H. Munro's short story, "The Storyteller").