Assaileth vs Assoileth - What's the difference?
assaileth | assoileth |
(assail)
To attack violently using words or force.
(archaic) (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
As verbs the difference between assaileth and assoileth
is that assaileth is archaic third-person singular of assail while assoileth is third-person singular of assoil.assaileth
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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").
assoileth
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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 .
