Rede vs Rere - What's the difference?
rede | rere |
(archaic) Help, advice, counsel.
* 1603 , William Shakespeare, "The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark", Act 1, Scene 3:
* 1885 , Sir Richard Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night , vol. 1:
* 1954 , JRR Tolkien, The Two Towers :
(archaic) Decision, a plan.
To govern, protect.
To discuss, deliberate.
To advise.
:(Chaucer)
*:
*:The meane whyle his squyer founde wryten vpon the crosse that Bagdemagus shold neuer retorne vnto the Courte ageyne / tyll he had wonne a kny?tes body of the round table body for body / lo syr said his squyer / here I fynde wrytyng of yow / therfor I rede yow retorne ageyne to the Courte / that shalle I neuer said Bagdemagus
To interpret (a riddle or dream); explain.
:(Chaucer)
*1836 , (Thomas Carlyle), (Sartor Resartus)
*:The secret of Man's Being is still like the Sphinx's secret: a riddle that he cannot rede .
(all meanings).
(Irish, legal, specifically) back portion or area behind (a building, etc.)
As nouns the difference between rede and rere
is that rede is help, advice, counsel while rere is an archaic spelling of lang=en (all meanings).As a verb rede
is to govern, protect.rede
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Noun
(-)- Ophelia:
Do not, as some ungracious pastors do,
Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven,
Whiles, like a puffed and reckless libertine,
Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads,
And recks not his own rede.
- When the Bull heard these words he knew the Ass to be his friend and thanked him, saying, "Right is thy rede "
- ‘Yet do not cast all hope away. Tomorrow is unknown. Rede oft is found at the rising of the Sun.’
Etymology 2
From (etyl) reden, . More at (l).Verb
Derived terms
* (l)Anagrams
* * * * ----rere
English
Noun
(en noun)Quotations
* 1678 "In the rere' of them fall others of the city trumpets; after them two gentlemen bearing the banners of the city and the Lord Mayor; twelve gentlemen ushers appointed as aforesaid follow them, and after them the court of assistants put a period to that division. In the '''rere of them falls the serjeant trumpet, after him sixteen other of the king's trumpets and kettle-drums; ..." ''The Triumphs of London'' (Reprinted 1869 in''Some account of the Worshipful company of grocers of the city of London, by John Benjamin Heath) * 1784 "So out we sallied, the corporal lending his master his arm, and bringing up the rere , to the abby of Saint Grmain [sic]"
Tristram Shandy Vol.3, p.44, Lawrence Sterne * 1855 "It begins by setting out all the tenants' names; the frontage, the depth, and the reres of the several plots." Archdeacon Hewitson's Endowment For A Protestant School At Swords, Endowed Schools, Ireland, Commission, minutes of evidence, Vol. II in
Parliamentary papers, Volume 22, Part 3, p.33* 1922 "He trod the worn steps, pushed the swingdoor and entered softly by the rere ."
Ulysses , Chapter VJames Joyce * 1986 "the arcade at the rere of the General Post Office"
Dublin Metropolitan Streets Commission Act, 1986: First Schedule* 1995 "the unnamed laneway to the rere of Nos. 1-8 Merview"
S.I. No. 248/1995 — Urban Renewal Act, 1986 (Designated Areas) (Cobh) Order, 1995; Schedule, Part II, Harbour Row Area* 1996 "First Floor/Rere Room: Doors, door cases, chimney piece, decorative plaster ceiling."
Written Answers. - Departmental BuildingsDáil Éireann - Volume 463 - 26 March, 1996 * 2009 "permission sought for proposed (1) garage conversion and first floor extension to side, (2) single storey extension to rere , and (3) alterations to front single-storey element and wider vehicular entrance at [address]"
Malahide planning noticesFingal Independent , 18 November 2009
Derived terms
* (l)See also
* reredorterReferences
*rereat Wordnik