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Kyth vs Kythe - What's the difference?

kyth | kythe |

As verbs the difference between kyth and kythe

is that kyth is to show, manifest while kythe is to make known in words; to announce, proclaim, declare, tell.

kyth

English

Verb

(head)
  • (obsolete) To show, manifest
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    kythe

    English

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • To make known in words; to announce, proclaim, declare, tell.
  • * 725 . Corpus Glossary (1150). Intimandum to cyðenne.
  • * 1000 . West Saxon Gospels (John, xvii. 26). Ic him cyðde ðinne naman & gyt wylle cyþan.
  • To make known by action, appearance; to manifest, show, prove, demonstrate, indicate.
  • * 1175 . Lambeth Manuscript (99). Elches monnes weorc cuðað [printed cuðan] hwilc gast hine wissað.
  • * 1385 . Geoffrey Chaucer, Legend Good Women (Prologue, 492). Sche kytheth what she is.
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    • Related terms

    * kything (Webster 1913)