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Loaden vs Louden - What's the difference?

loaden | louden |

As verbs the difference between loaden and louden

is that loaden is (archaic) while louden is to become louder.

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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    louden

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To become louder.
  • *1928 , (Siegfried Sassoon), Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man , Penguin 2013, p. 167:
  • *:The shouts of the bookies were now loudening outside in the sunlight, and when I'd slipped on my raincoat we went out to see what we could of the Light Weight Race.