Oath vs Doom - What's the difference?
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A solemn pledge or promise to a god, king, or another person, to attest to the truth of a statement or contract
* 1924 , Aristotle, Metaphysics , Translated by W. D. Ross. Nashotah, Wisconsin, USA: The Classical Library, 2001. Available at: . Book 1, Part 3.
The affirmed statement or promise accepted as equivalent to an oath .
A light or insulting use of a solemn pledge or promise to a god, king or another person, to attest to the truth of a statement or contract the name of a deity in a profanity, as in swearing oaths .
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(legal) An affirmation of the truth of a statement.
pledge, vow, avowal
Destiny, especially terrible.
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An ill fate; an impending severe occurrence or danger that seems inevitable.
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A feeling of danger, impending danger, darkness or despair.
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(countable, historical) A law.
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(countable, historical) A judgment or decision.
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(countable, historical) A sentence or penalty for illegal behaviour.
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Death.
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(sometimes capitalized) The Last Judgment; or , an artistic representation of it.
To pronounce sentence or judgment on; to condemn.
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To destine; to fix irrevocably the ill fate of.
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(obsolete) To judge; to estimate or determine as a judge.
(obsolete) To ordain as a penalty; hence, to mulct or fine.
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(archaic, US, New England) To assess a tax upon, by estimate or at discretion.
As nouns the difference between oath and doom
is that oath is a solemn pledge or promise to a god, king, or another person, to attest to the truth of a statement or contract while doom is destiny, especially terrible.As verbs the difference between oath and doom
is that oath is to pledge while doom is to pronounce sentence or judgment on; to condemn.As a proper noun Doom is
a popular first-person shooter video game, often regarded as the father of the genre.oath
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(wikipedia oath)Noun
(en noun)- for they made Ocean and Tethys the parents of creation, and described the oath of the gods as being by water,
Sam Leith
Where the profound meets the profane, passage=Swearing doesn't just mean what we now understand by "dirty words". It is entwined, in social and linguistic history, with the other sort of swearing: vows and oaths'. Consider for a moment the origins of almost any word we have for bad language – "profanity", "curses", "' oaths " and "swearing" itself.}}
Synonyms
Derived terms
* oathbound * oathbreaker * oathless * under oathExternal links
* (wikipedia "oath")Anagrams
* (l)doom
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Noun
- Homely household task shall be her doom .
- And there he learned of things and haps to come, / To give foreknowledge true, and certain doom .
- The first dooms of London provide especially the recovery of cattle belonging to the citizens.
- They met an untimely doom when the mineshaft caved in.
- This is the day of doom for Bassianus.
Derived terms
* doom-and-gloomer, gloom-and-doomer * doomer * doomful * doomless * doomlike * doom metal * doomsday * doomsayer * doomster * doomy * entropic doom * foredoom * gloom and doom * predoomAntonyms
* (ill fate) fortuneVerb
(en verb)- a criminal doomed to death
- Absolves the just, and dooms the guilty souls.
- A man of genius doomed to struggle with difficulties.
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- Have I tongue to doom my brother's death?