Knelt vs Knell - What's the difference?
knelt | knell |
(kneel).
* , chapter=5
, title= to ring a bell slowly, especially for a funeral; to toll.
* Beaumont and Fletcher
* , The New Timon. A romance of London , Chapter 86
to signal or proclaim something by ringing a bell.
the sound of a bell knelling; a toll.
* 1750 , , Line 1
As verbs the difference between knelt and knell
is that knelt is past tense of kneel while knell is to ring a bell slowly, especially for a funeral; to toll.As a noun knell is
the sound of a bell knelling; a toll.knelt
English
Verb
(head)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=Then everybody once more knelt , and soon the blessing was pronounced. The choir and the clergy trooped out slowly, […], down the nave to the western door. […] At a seemingly immense distance the surpliced group stopped to say the last prayer.}}
Synonyms
* kneeledknell
English
Verb
(en verb)- not worth a blessing nor a bell to knell for thee
- Yet all that poets sing, and grief hath known, / Of hopes laid waste, knells in that word, alone .
Noun
(en noun)- The curfew tolls the knell of parting day,