Kythe vs Kithe - What's the difference?
kythe | kithe |
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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(archaic, except in Scots) To make known; to reveal.
:* Late 14th century': For, but if Crist open myracle '''kiþe , / Wiþouten gilt þou shalt be slayn as swiþe. — Geoffrey Chaucer, ''The Man of Law's Tale