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Rue vs Ossify - What's the difference?

rue | ossify |

As verbs the difference between rue and ossify

is that rue is to cause to repent of sin or regret some past action while ossify is to transform (or cause to transform) from a softer animal substance into bone; particularly the processes of growth in humans and animals.

As a noun rue

is sorrow; repentance; regret.

rue

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) rewe, reowe, from (etyl) .

Noun

(-)
  • (archaic, or, dialectal) Sorrow; repentance; regret.
  • (archaic, or, dialectal) Pity; compassion.
  • Derived terms
    * rueful * ruth

    Etymology 2

    (etyl) , from Germanic. Cognate with Dutch rouwen, German reuen.

    Verb

  • (obsolete) To cause to repent of sin or regret some past action.
  • (obsolete) To cause to feel sorrow or pity.
  • To repent of or regret (some past action or event); to wish that a past action or event had not taken place.
  • I rued the day I crossed paths with her.
  • * (rfdate) Chapman
  • I wept to see, and rued it from my heart.
  • * (rfdate) Milton
  • Thy will chose freely what it now so justly rues .
  • (archaic) To feel compassion or pity.
  • * Late 14th century Geoffrey Chaucer, ‘The Franklin's Tale’, Canterbury Tales
  • Madame, reweth upon my peynes smerte
  • * (rfdate) Ridley
  • which stirred men's hearts to rue upon them
  • (archaic) To feel sorrow or regret.
  • * (rfdate) Tennyson
  • Old year, we'll dearly rue for you.
    Usage notes
    Most frequently used in the collocation “rue the day”.

    Etymology 3

    (wikipedia rue) From (etyl) ruwe, (etyl) rue (> modern French rue), from (etyl) . Compare (rude).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Any of various perennial shrubs of the genus Ruta , especially the herb , formerly used in medicines.
  • * 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.2:
  • But th'aged Nourse, her calling to her bowre, / Had gathered Rew , and Savine, and the flowre / Of Camphora, and Calamint, and Dill [...].
  • * c. 1600 , (William Shakespeare), , (Ophelia):
  • There’s fennel for you, and columbines: there’s rue''' for you; and here’s some for me: we may call it herb-grace o' Sundays: O you must wear your ' rue with a difference.
    Synonyms
    * garden rue * herb of grace
    Derived terms
    * goat's rue * rue anemone * Syrian rue * wall rue

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    ossify

    English

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • (ambitransitive) To transform (or cause to transform) from a softer animal substance into bone; particularly the processes of growth in humans and animals.
  • * 1884 , Arthur C. Cole, Studies in Microscopical Science , p. 35,
  • , nor do all bones of the same skeleton ossify during the sam? period of time.
  • (ambitransitive, animate) To become (or cause to become) inflexible and rigid in habits or opinions.
  • * 1996 , , The Art of the Long View , p. 96,
  • Before long, the entire organization ossifies .
  • * 2006 , Michael S. Jones, Metaphysics of Religion: Lucian Blaga and Contemporary Philosophy , p. 79,
  • Possession of absolute knowledge would ossify the human spirit, quenching human creativity;
  • (ambitransitive, inanimate) To grow (or cause to grow) formulaic and permanent.
  • * 1886 , ,
  • This accidental repartition gets repeated, develops advantages of its own, and gradually ossifies into a systematic division of labour.
  • * 2001 , , translated by Kevin O'Neill and David Suchoff, The Wisdom of Love , p. 55,
  • Now, in turn, we apply a revolutionary critique that ossifies into a rhetoric to become "the monstrous Latin of a monstrous church."
  • * 2005 , Michelle Goldberg, " The war on 'Munich'", Salon.com , December 20, 2005,
  • [T]he charge threatens to ossify into conventional wisdom before the movie's audience can get to theaters to see how misguided it is.
  • (rare) To calcify.
  • * 1850 , ,
  • The cartilages become brittle, and in many instances are ossified ; the ligaments are rendered harder, but are less capable of resisting extension.

    Synonyms

    * (become inflexible and rigid) harden