Euth vs Ruth - What's the difference?
euth | ruth |
Alternative form of euthanize.
* 1973 , Arthur C. Clarke, Rendezvous with Rama
Alternative form of euthanasia. (archaic) Sorrow for the misery of another; pity, compassion; mercy.
*, II.11:
* 1847 , , (Jane Eyre) , Chapter IV, 1859, New York, Harper & Brothers,
* 2011 , Turisas (Mathias Nygård),
* 1896 , , (A Shropshire Lad)'', XLIV, 2005, ''The Works of A. E. Housman'' [1994, ''The Collected Poems of A. E. Housman ],
* ~1937 , J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fall of Arthur
(obsolete) Sorrow; misery; distress.
(obsolete) Something which causes regret or sorrow; a pitiful sight.
As nouns the difference between euth and ruth
is that euth is alternative form of euthanasia while ruth is sorrow for the misery of another; pity, compassion; mercy.As a verb euth
is alternative form of euthanize.As a proper noun Ruth is
a book of the Old Testament and the Hebrew Tanakh.euth
English
Verb
(en verb)- Thereafter the job of euthing was transferred to the chief medical officer, who it was felt would have less emotional involvement.
Noun
ruth
English
Noun
(-)- It was my fortune to be at Rome'', upon a day that one ''Catena , a notorious high-way theefe, was executed: at his strangling no man of the companie seemed to be mooved to any ruth .
page 14:
- under her light eyebrows glimmered an eye devoid of ruth .
Hunting Pirates
- Scum they are! —Foe of mankind!
- Clear the sea! —Show no ruth !
page 61,
- Now to your grave shall friend and stranger / With ruth and some with envy come.
- He mourned too late
- In ruth for the rending of the Round Table.