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Ensconce vs Harbour - What's the difference?

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Ensconce is a related term of harbour.


In lang=en terms the difference between ensconce and harbour

is that ensconce is to settle comfortably while harbour is to accept, as with a belief.

As verbs the difference between ensconce and harbour

is that ensconce is to place in a secure environment while harbour is to provide shelter or refuge for.

As a noun harbour is

(obsolete|uncountable) shelter, refuge.

ensconce

English

Verb

  • To place in a secure environment.
  • * 1876 , , ch IX,
    • They found the sharp new heap they were seeking, and ensconced themselves within the protection of three great elms that grew in a bunch within a few feet of the grave.
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  • To settle comfortably.
  • *
    • Major was already ensconced on his bed of straw, under a lantern which hung from a beam.

    Usage notes

    Particularly used in form ensconced, as in “she was ensconced in an armchair.”

    Synonyms

    * (settle comfortably) cuddle up

    harbour

    English

    Alternative forms

    * herberwe (obsolete) * herborough (obsolete) * harbor (now US)

    Noun

    (wikipedia harbour)
  • (en noun) (British, Canada)
  • (obsolete, uncountable) Shelter, refuge.
  • A place of shelter or refuge.
    • The neighbourhood is a well-known harbour for petty thieves.
  • (obsolete) A house of the zodiac.
  • * Late 14th century: To ech of hem his tyme and his seson, / As thyn herberwe chaungeth lowe or heighe — Geoffrey Chaucer, ‘The Franklin’s Tale’, Canterbury Tales
  • A sheltered area for ships; a piece of water adjacent to land in which ships may stop to load and unload.
    • The city has an excellent natural harbour .
  • (astrology) The mansion of a heavenly body.
  • A mixing box for materials in glass-working.

    • Derived terms

    * harbourage * harbourmaster * unharboured

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To provide shelter or refuge for.
    • The docks, which once harboured''' tall ships, now '''harbour only petty thieves.
  • * Bishop Burnet
    • The bare suspicion made it treason to harbour the person suspected.
  • * Rowe
    • Let not your gentle breast harbour one thought of outrage.
  • To accept, as with a belief.
    • That scientist harbours the belief that God created humans.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2012 , date=September 7 , author=Phil McNulty , title=Moldova 0-5 England , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=If Moldova harboured even the slightest hopes of pulling off a comeback that would have bordered on miraculous given their lack of quality, they were snuffed out 13 minutes before the break when Oxlade-Chamberlain picked his way through midfield before releasing Defoe for a finish that should have been dealt with more convincingly by Namasco at his near post.}}

    See also

    * dock * haven