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Lear vs Leal - What's the difference?

lear | leal |

As a noun lear

is something learned; a lesson or lear can be .

As a verb lear

is (transitive|archaic|and|scotland) to teach.

As an adjective leal is

loyal, true, trusty.

lear

English

Etymology 1

Noun

  • Something learned; a lesson.
  • Learning, lore; doctrine.
  • * 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.vii:
    • when all other helpes she saw to faile, / She turnd her selfe backe to her wicked leares / And by her deuilish arts thought to preuaile [...].
  • * 1898 , (Francis James Child) (editor), Lord William, or Lord Lundy , from ,
    • They dressed up in maids' array,
    And passd for sisters fair;
    With ae consent gaed ower the sea,
    For to seek after lear .

    Etymology 2

    See (lere)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (transitive, archaic, and, Scotland) To teach.
  • (archaic) To learn.
  • * 14thC , (Geoffrey Chaucer), The Canon's Yeoman's Prologue and Tale , from ,
    • He hath take on him many a great emprise,
    Which were full hard for any that is here
    To bring about, but they of him it lear .

    Etymology 3

    See (lehr)

    Noun

    (en noun)

    • Anagrams

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    Noun

    (vo-noun)
  • olive tree

    • Declension

    (vo-decl-noun)

    leal

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Loyal, honest.
  • * 2000 , (George RR Martin), A Storm of Swords , Bantam 2011, p. 858:
    • We thank you for the pure white fire of his goodness, for the red sword of justice in his hand, for the love he bears his leal people.
  • True, genuine.
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