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Loaden vs Leaden - What's the difference?

loaden | leaden |

As a verb loaden

is (archaic).

As an adjective leaden is

(dated) made of lead.

loaden

English

Verb

(head)
  • (archaic)
  • * {{quote-book, year=1638, author=, title=Old English Plays, Vol. I, chapter=The Martyr'd Souldier, edition= citation
    • , passage=Eugenius discovered sitting loaden with many Irons, a Lampe burning by him; then enter Clowne with a piece of browne bread and a Carret roote. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1665, author=Samuel Pepys, title=Diary of Samuel Pepys, October 1665, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=He did discourse to us of the Dutch fleete being abroad, eighty-five of them still, and are now at the Texell, he believes, in expectation of our Eastland ships coming home with masts and hempe, and our loaden Hambrough ships going to Hambrough. }}

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    leaden

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (dated) Made of lead.
  • Pertaining to or resembling lead; heavy, grey, sluggish.
  • * Ode to a Nightingale , John Keats
    • "Where but to think is to be full of sorrow And leaden-eyed despairs, Where Beauty cannot keep her lustrous eyes, Or new Love pine at them beyond to-morrow."
  • Dull; darkened with overcast.
    • the sky was leaden and thick
  • * 1999: Stardust , Neil Gaiman, page 31 (2001 Perennial paperback edition)
    • "It was at the end of February..., when the world was cold..., when icy rains fell from the leaden skies in continual drizzling showers."

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    * * English adjectives ending in -en