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Behold vs Descry - What's the difference?

behold | descry |

In lang=en terms the difference between behold and descry

is that behold is to see, or to look at while descry is to discover (a distant or obscure object) by the eye; to espy; to discern or detect.

As verbs the difference between behold and descry

is that behold is to see, or to look at while descry is to see.

behold

English

Verb

  • To see, or to look at.
  • *
    • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=8 , passage=The humor of my proposition appealed more strongly to Miss Trevor than I had looked for, and from that time forward she became her old self again;

    Usage notes

    Rarely used in informal speech. The past participle beholden now has a meaning detached from the other forms of the word.

    Synonyms

    * get a load of

    Derived terms

    * beholder ** eye of the beholder

    References

    * * English irregular verbs ----

    descry

    English

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • To see.
  • To discover (a distant or obscure object) by the eye; to espy; to discern or detect.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Edmund, I think, is gone to descry / The strength o' the enemy.
  • * Milton
    • And now their way to earth they had descried .
  • * 1719 (Daniel Defoe), (Robinson Crusoe)
    • When I had passed the vale where my bower stood
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    • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=4 , passage=Judge Short had gone to town, and Farrar was off for a three days' cruise up the lake. I was bitterly regretting I had not gone with him when the distant notes of a coach horn reached my ear, and I descried a four-in-hand winding its way up the inn road from the direction of Mohair.}}
  • To discover; to disclose; to reveal.
  • * Milton
    • His purple robe he had thrown aside, lest it should descry him.

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