Borne vs Bourne - What's the difference?
borne | bourne |
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.”
(countable, archaic) A boundary.
:: Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes.
:: Shakespeare, Hamlet , Act III. Scene I.
::Tennyson 'Crossing the Bar'
(archaic) A goal or destination.
(countable) A stream or brook in which water flows only seasonally.
As an adjective borne
is carried, supported.As a verb borne
is past participle of lang=en.As a noun bourne is
a boundary.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 ----bourne
English
Noun
- ..and though I did not stop in my advance, yet I went on slowly, like a man who should have passed a bourne unnoticed, and strayed into the country of the dead.
- But that the dread of something after death,/ The undiscover'd country from whose bourn [e]/ No traveller returns
- "For though from out our bourne of Time and Place,
The flood may bear me far,
I hope to see my Pilot face to face
When I have crossed the bar.