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Crone vs Cronelike - What's the difference?

crone | cronelike |

As a noun crone

is (wicca) one of the triune goddesses of the lady in wicca alongside the mother and maiden and representing an old woman.

As an adjective cronelike is

like a crone; old and withered.

crone

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (obsolete) An old woman.
  • * Dryden
    • But still the crone was constant to her note.
  • An archetypal figure, a Wise Woman.
  • An ugly, evil-looking, or frightening old woman; a hag.
  • (obsolete) An old ewe.
    • (Tusser)
  • (obsolete) An old man, especially one who talks and acts like an old woman.
  • * Beaconsfield
    • A few old battered crones of office.
  • * Washington Irving
    • The old crone [a negro man] lived in a hovel which his master had given him.

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    cronelike

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Like a crone; old and withered.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2009, date=September 13, author=Caryn James, title=Ethnic Cleansers, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=He had come to town as a child with the old woman who had adopted him, a cronelike granny straight from a storybook. }}