Geas vs Gens - What's the difference?
geas | gens |
A vow or obligation placed upon a person.
A curse.
A mystical compulsion.
generations
(historical) A legally defined unit of Roman society, being a collection of people related by birth, marriage or adoption, but allowing a greater amount of time between members and their common ancestor than is commonly implied by the term related.
(anthropology) A tribal subgroup whose members are characterized by having the same descent, usually along the male line.
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As nouns the difference between geas and gens
is that geas is a vow or obligation placed upon a person while gens is .geas
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Quotations
* 1980' - Stephen Donaldson, ''The Wounded Land'', page 162, ''The memory came upon him like a '''''geas'' , overwhelming his revulsion, numbing his heart. Neil Gaiman, "Chivalry": "Galaad stood up again and turned to Mrs. Whitaker. 'Gracious lady, keeper of the Holy of Holies, let me now depart this place with the Blessed Chalice, that my journeyings may be ended and my geas fulfilled.'"Anagrams
* ----gens
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Etymology 1
Shortened from generations.Abbreviation
(Abbreviation) (head)See also
* genEtymology 2
(wikipedia gens) From (etyl) ; see also gentile, gender, genus, generate.Noun
(en-noun)- The taboos, the laws, the rules of genses , tribes, and nations, from the lowest to the highest, are upheld by a vague terror and sacred awe which society impresses on man by threats of ill-luck, fearful evil, and terrible punishments befalling sinners and transgressors of the tabooed, of the holy and the forbidden, charged with a mysterious, highly contagious, and virulently infective life-consuming energy.
