Borne vs Incurred - What's the difference?
borne | incurred |
carried, supported.
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* 1881: ", Poems , page
* c.2000 - , II
* 1907 , , The Dust of Conflict chapter 21 [http://openlibrary.org/works/OL4429277W]
*:“Can't you understand that love without confidence is a worthless thing—and that had you trusted me I would have borne any obloquy with you.”
(incur)
To bring upon oneself or expose oneself to, especially something inconvenient, harmful, or onerous; to become liable or subject to.
* 1891 , Henry Graham Dakyns (translator), The works of Xenophon , ",
* 1910 , ,
(chiefly, legal) To render somebody liable or subject to.
* 1861 , ,
(obsolete) To enter or pass into.
(obsolete) To fall within a period or scope; to occur; to run into danger.
To render liable or subject to; to occasion.
* Chapman
As an adjective borne
is narrow.As a verb incurred is
(incur).borne
English
Adjective
(-)- In the last rays of the setting sun, you could pick out far away down the reach his beard borne high up on the white structure, foaming up stream to anchor for the night.
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- When, bright with purple and with gold,
Come priest and holy cardinal,
And borne above the heads of all
The gentle Shepherd of the Fold.
- Irving is further required, as a matter of practice, to spell out what he contends are the specific defamatory meanings borne by those passages.
Derived terms
* airborne * waterborneVerb
(head)Synonyms
* enduredAnagrams
* English irregular past participles ----incurred
English
Verb
(head)incur
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Alternative forms
* encurVerb
(incurr)- [T]he master in his wrath may easily incur worse evil himself than he inflicts—[...]
- And here it is to be noted that hatred is incurred as well on account of good actions as of bad;
- The least neglect of duty will incur [...] the penalty of thirty-nine well laid on in the morning.
- Lest you incur me much more damage in my fame than you have done me pleasure in preserving my life.