Descried vs Decried - What's the difference?
descried | decried |
(descry)
To see.
To discover (a distant or obscure object) by the eye; to espy; to discern or detect.
* Shakespeare
* Milton
* 1719 (Daniel Defoe), (Robinson Crusoe)
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=4
, passage=Judge Short had gone to town, and Farrar was off for a three days' cruise up the lake. I was bitterly regretting I had not gone with him when the distant notes of a coach horn reached my ear, and I descried a four-in-hand winding its way up the inn road from the direction of Mohair.}}
To discover; to disclose; to reveal.
* Milton
(decry)
To denounce as harmful.
* 1970 , Alvin Toffler, Future Shock'', ''Bantam Books , pg. 99:
* 1970 , Alvin Toffler, Future Shock'', ''Bantam Books , pg. 474:
To blame for ills.
As verbs the difference between descried and decried
is that descried is past tense of descry while decried is past tense of decry.descried
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(en-verb)- Edmund, I think, is gone to descry / The strength o' the enemy.
- And now their way to earth they had descried .
- When I had passed the vale where my bower stood
- His purple robe he had thrown aside, lest it should descry him.
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(en-verb)- All of us seem to need some totalistic relationships in our lives. But to decry the fact that we cannot have only such relationships is nonsense.
- While decrying bureaucracy and demanding participatory democracy they, themselves, frequently attempt to manipulate the very group of workers, blacks or students on whose behalf they demand participation.