Oft vs Eft - What's the difference?
oft | eft |
(chiefly, poetic, dialectal, and in combination) often; frequently; not rarely; many times.
* 1623', , Volume 4, 1778,
* 1819', , John Galt (biography), ''The Pophecy of Dante'', Canto the Fourth, '''1857 , ''The Complete Works of Lord Byron , Volume 1,
* 1902 , James H. Mulligan, In Kentucky'', quoted in 2005, Wade Hall (editor), ''The Kentucky Anthology ,
A newt, especially the European ).
*1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , V.10:
*:Only these marishes and myrie bogs, / In which the fearefull ewftes do build their bowres, / Yeeld me an hostry mongst the croking frogs […].
(label) Again; afterwards
*14thC , (Geoffrey Chaucer), '' in ''(The Canterbury Tales) ,
*:Were I unbounden, all so may I the, / I woulde never eft come in the snare.
*1384 , (John Wycliffe), , ii, 1,
*:And eft he entride in to Cafarnaum, aftir eiyte daies.
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*:Than syr bedwere retorned ageyn & took the swerde in hys hande / and than hym thought synne and shame to throwe awaye that nobyl swerde / and so efte he hydde the swerde and retorned ageyn and tolde to the kyng that he had ben at the water and done his commaundemente
*1557 , , ,
*:And when they were all gone, / And the dim moon doth eft withhold the light,
As adverbs the difference between oft and eft
is that oft is often; frequently; not rarely; many times while eft is again; afterwards.As a noun eft is
a newt, especially the European smooth newt (species: Triton punctatus).As an initialism EFT is
emotional Freedom Technique.oft
English
Adverb
(er)- An oft -told tale
page 45,
- What I can do, can do no hurt to try: / Since you ?et up your re?t 'gain?t remedy: / He that of greate?t works is fini?her, / Oft does them by the weake?t mini?ter; / So holy writ in babes hath judgment ?hown, / When judges have been babes.
page 403,
- And how is it that they, the sons of fame, / Whose inspiration seems to them to shine / From high, they whom the nations oftest name, / Must pass their days in penury or pain, / Or step to grandeur through the paths of shame, / And wear a deeper brand and gaudier chain?
page 203,
- The moonlight falls the softest / In Kentucky; / The summer days come oftest / In Kentucky;