Council vs Witenagemote - What's the difference?
council | witenagemote |
A committee that leads or governs (e.g. city council, student council).
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
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* Milton
* Alexander Pope
(historical) A meeting of wise men; the national council or legislature of England in the days of the Anglo-Saxons, before the (Norman Conquest).
As nouns the difference between council and witenagemote
is that council is a committee that leads or governs (e.g. city council, student council) while witenagemote is a meeting of wise men; the national council or legislature of England in the days of the Anglo-Saxons, before the Norman Conquest.council
English
Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=He turned back to the scene before him and the enormous new block of council dwellings. The design was some way after Corbusier but the block was built up on plinths and resembled an Atlantic liner swimming diagonally across the site.}}
- Satan void of rest, / His potentates to council called by night.
- O great in action and in council wise.