Hath vs Oath - What's the difference?
hath | oath |
(archaic) (have)
* ... unto every one that hath' shall be given, and from him that '''hath''' not, even that he ' hath shall be taken away ... - Luke 19:26
A solemn pledge or promise to a god, king, or another person, to attest to the truth of a statement or contract
* 1924 , Aristotle, Metaphysics , Translated by W. D. Ross. Nashotah, Wisconsin, USA: The Classical Library, 2001. Available at: . Book 1, Part 3.
The affirmed statement or promise accepted as equivalent to an oath .
A light or insulting use of a solemn pledge or promise to a god, king or another person, to attest to the truth of a statement or contract the name of a deity in a profanity, as in swearing oaths .
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(legal) An affirmation of the truth of a statement.
pledge, vow, avowal
In archaic terms the difference between hath and oath
is that hath is third-person singular of have while oath is to pledge.As a noun oath is
a solemn pledge or promise to a god, king, or another person, to attest to the truth of a statement or contract.hath
English
Verb
(head)- Thirty days hath September.
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* ----oath
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(wikipedia oath)Noun
(en noun)- for they made Ocean and Tethys the parents of creation, and described the oath of the gods as being by water,
Sam Leith
Where the profound meets the profane, passage=Swearing doesn't just mean what we now understand by "dirty words". It is entwined, in social and linguistic history, with the other sort of swearing: vows and oaths'. Consider for a moment the origins of almost any word we have for bad language – "profanity", "curses", "' oaths " and "swearing" itself.}}