Gest vs Just - What's the difference?
gest | just |
(obsolete) A gesture or action.
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(archaic) A story or adventure; a verse or prose romance.
(archaic) An action represented in sports, plays, or on the stage; show; ceremony.
(archaic) bearing; deportment
* Spenser
(obsolete) A stage in travelling; a stop for rest or lodging in a journey; a rest.
(obsolete) A roll reciting the several stages arranged for a royal progress.
Factually ; right, correct; proper.
Morally ; upright; righteous, equitable.
* Shakespeare
Only, simply, merely.
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, title= (sentence adverb) (Used to reduce the force of an imperative); simply.
(speech act) (Used to convey a less serious or formal tone)
(speech act) (Used to show humility).
(degree) absolutely, positively
Moments ago, recently.
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, title= By a narrow margin; closely; nearly.
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, chapter=14 Exactly, perfectly.
Precisely.
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As a noun gest
is (obsolete) a gesture or action or gest can be (obsolete) a stage in travelling; a stop for rest or lodging in a journey; a rest.As a proper noun just is
, cognate to english justus.gest
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) geste.Noun
(en noun)- They did obeysaunce, as beseemed right, / And then againe returned to their restes: / The Porter eke to her did lout with humble gestes .
- more Kings and Princes have written his gestes' and actions, than any other historians, of what quality soever, have registred the ' gests , or collected the actions of any other King or Prince that ever was.
- (Chaucer)
- (Spenser)
- (Mede)
- through his heroic grace and honorable gest
Etymology 2
Compare gist a resting place.Noun
(en noun)- (Kersey)
- (Hanmer)
Anagrams
* ----just
English
(wikipedia just)Etymology 1
From (etyl) juste, from (etyl) juste, from (etyl) . Cognate with Dutch & Scottish juist, French juste etc.Adjective
- It is a just assessment of the facts.
- It looks like a just solution at first glance.
- We know your grace to be a man / Just and upright.
Synonyms
* fair * upright * righteous * equitableAntonyms
* unjustDerived terms
* justly * justnessAdverb
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- And having just enough, not covet more.
- The god Pan guided my hand just to the heart of the beast.
- To-night, at Herne's oak, just 'twixt twelve and one.
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