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Assoils vs Assails - What's the difference?

assoils | assails |

As verbs the difference between assoils and assails

is that assoils is third-person singular of assoil while assails is third-person singular of assail.

assoils

English

Verb

(head)
  • (assoil)

    • assoil

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (archaic) To absolve, acquit; to release from blame or sin.
  • * Dr. H. More
    • acquitted and assoiled from the guilt
  • * Jeremy Taylor
    • Many persons think themselves fairly assoiled , because they are not of scandalous lives.
  • (archaic) To set free, release.
  • * 1590 , Edmund Spendser, The Faerie Queene , I.x:
    • But first thou must a season fast and pray, / Till from her hands the spright assoiled is [...].
  • To solve; to clear up.
  • * Bishop Jewel
    • Any child might soon be able to assoil this riddle.
  • To expiate; to atone for.
  • * E. Arnold
    • Let each act assoil a fault.
    (Spenser)
  • To remove; to put off.
  • * Spenser
    • She soundly slept, and careful thoughts did quite assoil .

    Related terms

    * assoilzie

    assails

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (assail)

    • assail

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To attack violently using words or force.
    • 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").