Quieter vs Quitter - What's the difference?
quieter | quitter |
(quiet)
One who quiets.
* 2001 , Robert Faggen, Robert Frost and the Challenge of Darwin (page 269)
Matter flowing from a wound or sore; pus.
* 1395 , (John Wycliffe), Bible , Job II:
(farriery) A fistulous wound at the top of a horse's foot resulting from bruises, pricks, or neglected corns.
(obsolete) Scoria of tin.
One who quits.
(obsolete) A deliverer.
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As nouns the difference between quieter and quitter
is that quieter is one who quiets while quitter is matter flowing from a wound or sore; pus.As an adjective quieter
is comparative of quiet.As a verb quitter is
to suppurate; ooze with pus.quieter
English
Adjective
(head)Noun
(en noun)- The motives that were previously so powerful now lose their force, and instead of them, the complete knowledge of the real nature of the world, acting as a quieter of the will, produces resignation
Anagrams
* requite ----quitter
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) quiture, (quyture) et al., specialised use of .Alternative forms
* (l), (l) (obsolete)Noun
(-)- Therfor Sathan [...] smoot Joob with a ful wickid botche fro the sole of the foot til to his top; which Joob schauyde the quytere with a schelle, and sat in the dunghil.
Etymology 2
From .Noun
(en noun)- Winners never quit and quitters never win.