Bourn vs Borne - What's the difference?
bourn | borne |
A small stream or brook.
* Spenser
carried, supported.
* 1901 -
* 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.”
As a noun bourn
is a small stream or brook or bourn can be destination.As an adjective borne is
narrow.bourn
English
Etymology 1
Doublet of .Noun
(en noun)- My little boat can safely pass this perilous bourn .
Etymology 2
From (etyl) borne.Quotations
* (English Citations of "bourn")See also
* bourneAnagrams
*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.