Blamest vs Blazest - What's the difference?
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(archaic) (blame)
Censure.
Culpability for something negative or undesirable.
Responsibility for something meriting censure.
To censure (someone or something); to criticize.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.ii:
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* 1919 , (Saki), ‘The Oversight’, The Toys of Peace :
* 2006 , Clive James, North Face of Soho , Picador 2007, p. 106:
(obsolete) To bring into disrepute.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.viii:
To assert or consider that someone is the cause of something negative; to place blame, to attribute responsibility (for something negative or for doing something negative).
(archaic) (blaze)
A fire, especially a fast-burning fire producing a lot of flames and light.
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*:Long after his cigar burnt bitter, he sat with eyes fixed on the blaze . When the flames at last began to flicker and subside, his lids fluttered, then drooped; but he had lost all reckoning of time when he opened them again to find Miss Erroll in furs and ball-gown kneeling on the hearth and heaping kindling on the coals,.
Intense, direct light accompanied with heat.
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*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
*:O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon!
The white or lighter-coloured markings on a horse's face.
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A high-visibility orange colour, typically used in warning signs and hunters' clothing.
A bursting out, or active display of any quality; an outburst.
*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:his blaze of wrath
*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
*:For what is glory but the blaze of fame?
A spot made on trees by chipping off a piece of the bark, usually as a surveyor's mark.
*Robert Carlton (B. R. Hall, 1798-1863)
*:Three blazes' in a perpendicular line on the same tree indicating a legislative road, the single ' blaze a settlement or neighbourhood road.
To be on fire, especially producing a lot of flames and light.
To shine like a flame.
* (William Wordsworth)
* , chapter=1
, title= To make a thing shine like a flame.
To mark or cut (a route, especially through vegetation), or figuratively, to set a precedent for the taking-on of a challenge.
(slang) To smoke marijuana.
* Most commonly used in the infinitive, simple present, or simple past:
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In archaic terms the difference between blamest and blazest
is that blamest is archaic second-person singular of blame while blazest is archaic second-person singular of blaze.blamest
English
Verb
(head)blame
English
Etymology 1
(etyl), from (etyl)Noun
(-)- Blame came from all directions.
- The blame for starting the fire lies with the arsonist.
- They accepted the blame , but it was an accident.
Derived terms
* put the blame onSee also
* faultEtymology 2
(etyl), from (etyl) blasmer, from . Compare (blaspheme)Verb
(blam)- though my loue be not so lewdly bent, / As those ye blame , yet may it nought appease / My raging smart [...].
- These peculiarities of Dorothea's character caused Mr. Brooke to be all the more blamed in neighboring families for not securing some middle-aged lady as guide and companion to his nieces.
- That was the year that Sir Richard was writing his volume on Domestic Life in Tartary . The critics all blamed it for a lack of concentration.
- I covered the serious programmes too, and indeed, right from the start, I spent more time praising than blaming .
- For knighthoods loue, do not so foule a deed, / Ne blame your honour with so shamefull vaunt / Of vile reuenge.
- The arsonist was blamed for the fire.
Synonyms
* reproach, take to task, upbraid * (consider that someone is the cause of something negative) hold to accountDerived terms
* blamerAnagrams
* English reporting verbsblazest
English
Verb
(head)blaze
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Etymology 1
From (etyl) blase, from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)Etymology 2
From (etyl) blasen, from (etyl) . See above.Verb
(blaz)- And far and wide the icy summit blazed .
Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path […]. It twisted and turned,