Covery vs Covert - What's the difference?
covery | covert |
(rare) a dispelling of false or misleading notions
* J. B. S. Haldane (1937). "Forward",
Hidden, covered over; overgrown, sheltered.
* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , III.5:
* (Francis Bacon) (1561-1626)
(figuratively) Secret, surreptitious, concealed.
* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
* (John Milton) (1608-1674)
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As nouns the difference between covery and covert
is that covery is a dispelling of false or misleading notions while covert is area of thick undergrowth where animals hide.As an adjective covert is
hidden, covered over; overgrown, sheltered.covery
English
Noun
(coveries)Recent Advances in Geneticsby C. D. Darlington, p. vi.
- This book is indispensable not only because of the discoveries it describes, but almost equally on account of the coveries', to borrow a word from Samuel Butler. A fundamental ' covery is that the expressions "reductional division" and "equational division," those bogies of our schooldays, are meaningless.
References
* Samuel Butler (1921). "The Art of Covery",The Note-books of Samuel Butler*: The Art of Covery: This is as important and interesting as Dis-covery. Surely the glory of finally getting rid of and burying a long and troublesome matter should be as great as that of making an important discovery. The trouble is that the coverer is like Samson who perished in the wreck of what he had destroyed; if he gets rid of a thing effectually he gets rid of himself too.
covert
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Within that wood there was a covert glade, / Foreby a narrow foord, to them well knowne
- to plant a covert alley
- how covert matters may be best disclosed
- whether of open war or covert guile
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