Beguilt vs Beguile - What's the difference?
beguilt | beguile |
To make guilty; cause to sin.
* 1791 , Samuel Ayscough, An index to the remarkable passages and words made use of by Shakespeare :
* 1977 , Basil Davenport, The portable Roman reader :
To impute with guilt or fault; blame; accuse.
* 1895 , Eiríkr Magnússon, William Morris, The Saga library :
* 1911 , William Morris, May Morris, The Collected Works of William Morris :
To deceive or delude (using guile).
* , II, II, 102.
To charm, delight or captivate.
* 1864 November 21, Abraham Lincoln (signed) or John Hay, letter to Mrs. Bixby in Boston
In lang=en terms the difference between beguilt and beguile
is that beguilt is to impute with guilt or fault; blame; accuse while beguile is to charm, delight or captivate.As verbs the difference between beguilt and beguile
is that beguilt is to make guilty; cause to sin or beguilt can be while beguile is to deceive or delude (using guile).beguilt
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) begilten, equivalent to .Verb
(en verb)- Why should I fear, I know not; since guiltiness I know not. I will not reason what is meant hereby, because I will beguilt less of the meaning.
- "Why mangelest thou a wretched man? O spare me in my tomb! Spare to beguilt thy righteous hand, Æneas! [...]"
- [...] for they deemed that he was long-grudging, even in lesser matters than those wherein Kalf had done to beguilt him with the king.
- [...] and albeit Einar were old, yet he threw himself into this case, and beguilted the sons of Thorgrim to the full at the Thorsness-thing.
Etymology 2
From begild.Verb
(head)beguile
English
Alternative forms
*Verb
(beguil)- I know, sir, I am no flatterer: he that beguiled you, in a plain accent, was a plain knave.
- I feel how weak and fruitless must be any words of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming.