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Encroach vs Stole - What's the difference?

encroach | stole |

As verbs the difference between encroach and stole

is that encroach is (obsolete) to seize, appropriate while stole is (steal).

As nouns the difference between encroach and stole

is that encroach is (rare) encroachment while stole is an ecclesiastical garment or stole can be (botany) a stolon.

encroach

English

Verb

(es)
  • (obsolete) to seize, appropriate
  • to intrude unrightfully on someone else's rights or territory
  • * 2005 , .
  • Because change itself would absolutely stay-stable, and again, conversely, stability itself would change, if each of them encroached on the other.
  • to advance gradually beyond due limits
  • Derived terms

    * encroacher * encroachment

    Noun

    (es)
  • (rare) Encroachment.
  • * 1805 , Samuel Taylor Coleridge, ‘What is Life?’:
  • All that we see, all colours of all shade, / By encroach of darkness made?
  • * 2002 , Caroline Winterer, The Culture of Classicism , JHU Press 2002, p. 116:
  • Shorey was among the most vociferous opponents of the encroach of scientism and utilitarianism in education and society in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

    stole

    English

    Etymology 1

    From the verb to steal .

    Verb

    (head)
  • (steal)
  • Etymology 2

    (etyl) stole, (etyl) stola, (etyl) , from "to set", "place", "equip", "send", akin to English stall.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An ecclesiastical garment.
  • * Certain robes indicate a position in the hierarchy; others correspond to function and may be worn by the same individual at different times. The most important vestment among the insignia [of the clergy] is the stole', the emblem of sacerdotal status, the origin of which is the ancient pallium. The '''stole originally was a draped garment, then a folded one with the appearance of a scarf, and, finally, in the 4th century, a scarf. As a symbol of jurisdiction in the Roman Empire, the supreme pontiff (the pope, or bishop of Rome) conferred it upon archbishops and, later, upon bishops, as emblematic of their sharing in the papal authority. ''Copyright 1994-1998 Encyclopaedia Britannica CD 98 Multimedia Edition
  • A scarf-like garment, often made of fur.
  • Etymology 3

    (etyl) stolo, (-onis).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (botany) A stolon.
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