Bold vs Yold - What's the difference?
bold | yold |
Courageous, daring.
*, chapter=22
, title= * 2005 , (Plato), Sophist . Translation by Lesley Brown. .
(of a font) Having thicker strokes than the ordinary form of the typeface.
Presumptuous.
* 1748 , (David Hume), Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral. London: Oxford University Press, 1973. ยง 9.
To make (a font or some text) bold.
(obsolete) To make bold or daring.
(obsolete) To become bold.
(Webster 1913)
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(obsolete)
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.xi:
(obsolete) preterite of (l).
In obsolete|lang=en terms the difference between bold and yold
is that bold is (obsolete) to become bold while yold is (obsolete) preterite of (l).As verbs the difference between bold and yold
is that bold is to make (a font or some text) bold while yold is (obsolete) or yold can be (obsolete) preterite of (l).As a noun bold
is (obsolete) a dwelling; habitation; building.As an adjective bold
is courageous, daring.bold
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) bold, from (etyl) bold, blod, bolt, .Alternative forms
*Etymology 2
From (etyl) bold, bald, beald, from (etyl) bald, .Adjective
(boldness) (er)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=Not unnaturally, “Auntie” took this communication in bad part. Thus outraged, she showed herself to be a bold as well as a furious virago. Next day she found her way to their lodgings and tried to recover her ward by the hair of the head.}}
- It would be extraordinarily bold of me to give it a try after seeing what has happened to you.
- even the boldest and most affirmative philosophy, that has ever attempted to impose its crude dictates and principles on mankind.
Synonyms
* (courageous) audacious, brave, courageous, daring, forward * See alsoVerb
(en verb)- (Shakespeare)
yold
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) yolde, .Alternative forms
* (l)Verb
(head)- to yield him loue she doth deny, / Once to me yold , not to be yold againe [...].