Devoid vs Devoir - What's the difference?
devoid | devoir |
empty; having none of; completely without
(archaic) Duty, business; something which one must do.
*, vol.1, p.149:
*:he imprint not so much in his schollers mind.
* 1787 , Winifred Marshall Gales, The History of Lady Emma Melcombe and her family , vol.3. p.155:
* 1885 , Sir Richard Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night , vol.1:
* 1983 , (Lawrence Durrell), Sebastian'', Faber & Faber 2004 (''Avignon Quintet ), p.1057:
As an adjective devoid
is empty; having none of; completely without.As a verb devoid
is to empty out; to remove.As a noun devoir is
duty, business; something which one must do.devoid
English
Adjective
(-)- I went searching for a knife, but the kitchen was devoid of anything sharper than a spoon.
Derived terms
* devoidnessAnagrams
*devoir
English
Noun
(en noun)- I should have long ere this paid my devoirs to the inhabitants of Raymond Castle.
- Then quoth the portress to the mistress of the house, "O my lady, arise and go to thy place that I in turn may do my devoir ."
- That is the little bit of essential information which enables us to complete our devoir – without it we are just ordinary people, dispossessed, taken unawares: the original sin!