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Lither vs Lother - What's the difference?

lither | lother |

As adjectives the difference between lither and lother

is that lither is (lithe) or lither can be bad; wicked; false; worthless; slothful; lazy while lother is (loth).

lither

English

Etymology 1

See (lithe)

Adjective

(head)
  • (lithe)
  • * 1900 — , ch VIII
    • Doolittle and myself waited. Colebrook kept on cautiously, squirming his long body in sinuous waves like a lizard's through the grass, and was soon lost to us. No snake could have been lither .

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) lither, lyther, luther, lithere, lidder, from (etyl) . See (l).

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Bad; wicked; false; worthless; slothful; lazy.
  • * 1592 :
    • Anon, from thy insulting tyranny,
    Coupled in bonds of perpetuity,
    Two Talbots, winged through the lither sky,
    In thy despite shall ’scape mortality.
  • * 1653 , Thomas Urquhart and Peter Antony Motteux (translators), (1534), chapter XL
    • After the same manner a monk--I mean those lither , idle, lazy monks--doth not labour and work, as do the peasant and artificer; doth not ward and defend the country, as doth the man of war; cureth not the sick and diseased, as the physician doth; doth neither preach nor teach, as do the evangelical doctors and schoolmasters; doth not import commodities and things necessary for the commonwealth, as the merchant doth.
  • * 1850 , H. I. (translator), Reverand Thomas Harding, A.M. (editor), The Decades of Henry Bullinger, Minister of the Church of Zurich.'', ''Third Decade , The Parker Society, Great Britain, page 32
    • Secondarily, let him which laboreth in his vocation be prompt and active; let him be watchful and able to abide labour; he must be no lither -back1, unapt, or slothful fellow. Whatever he doth, that let him do with faith2 and diligence.
  • * 1920 , Charles Whibley, Literary Portraits, Ayer Publishing, ISBN 0836909887, page 63
    • Thus he sketched an education which might have befitted a great king, without a word of ribaldry or scorn, and in such a spirit as proves that he gravely condemned the lazy, lither system of the monasteries.
    Derived terms
    * (l) * (l) * (l) * (l)

    References

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    Anagrams

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    lother

    English

    Adjective

    (head)
  • (loth)

    • loth

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • (UK, rare)
    • I was loth to return to the office without the Henderson file.

    Usage notes

    * Often confused in meaning and pronunciation with loathe. * The loath spelling is about four times more common in the UK and about fifty times more common in the US. * This spelling had more currency in the US in the 19th century, appearing in Webster's 1828 dictionary, but not the 1913 edition.

    Quotations

    * (English Citations of "loth")

    Derived terms

    * lothly * lothness

    Anagrams

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