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Ethe vs Ithe - What's the difference?

ethe | ithe |

In obsolete terms the difference between ethe and ithe

is that ethe is easy while ithe is a wave.

As an adjective ethe

is easy.

As a verb ithe is

to thrive; flourish; prosper.

ethe

English

Etymology 1

From the (etyl) .

Noun

(head) (p)
  • * 1892 : Bernhard Bosanquet, A History of Aesthetic , p72
    • And it is a further proof of our view, that beginners in poetry attain completeness in expression and ethe [plural of ethos], before they are capable of composing the march of incidents; almost all the earliest poets are instances of this.
  • * 1942 : International Universities Press, Journal of Legal and Political Sociology , p85
    • The relation between social groups and their ethe is rational; they vary in fixed ratios.
  • * 2003 : Patchen Markell, Bound by Recognition , p76
    • …it makes sense to say that these speeches are representations of their ethe .

    Etymology 2

    See (eath).

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete) easy
  • * 1579 , , "The Shepheardes Calender", The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 4 , Charles C. Little and James Brown (1839), page 330:
    • Hereto, the hilles bene nigher heaven, / And thence the passage ethe  ; / As well can proove the piercing levin, / That seldome falles beneath.

    Anagrams

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    ithe

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) ithe, ythe, uthe, from (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A wave.
  • (obsolete, in the plural) Waves; the sea.

    • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) ithen, related to (etyl) .

    Verb

    (ith)
  • (obsolete) To thrive; flourish; prosper.
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