Ruth vs Aaron - What's the difference?
ruth | aaron |
(archaic) Sorrow for the misery of another; pity, compassion; mercy.
*, II.11:
* 1847 , , (Jane Eyre) , Chapter IV, 1859, New York, Harper & Brothers,
* 2011 , Turisas (Mathias Nygård),
* 1896 , , (A Shropshire Lad)'', XLIV, 2005, ''The Works of A. E. Housman'' [1994, ''The Collected Poems of A. E. Housman ],
* ~1937 , J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fall of Arthur
(obsolete) Sorrow; misery; distress.
(obsolete) Something which causes regret or sorrow; a pitiful sight.
The elder brother of Moses in the Book of the Exodus, and in the Quran.
* :
.
* 1969 , Portnoy's Complaint , Random House, 2002, page 145:
As proper nouns the difference between ruth and aaron
is that ruth is a book of the old testament and the hebrew tanakh while aaron is spanish equivalent of aaron.ruth
English
Noun
(-)- It was my fortune to be at Rome'', upon a day that one ''Catena , a notorious high-way theefe, was executed: at his strangling no man of the companie seemed to be mooved to any ruth .
page 14:
- under her light eyebrows glimmered an eye devoid of ruth .
Hunting Pirates
- Scum they are! —Foe of mankind!
- Clear the sea! —Show no ruth !
page 61,
- Now to your grave shall friend and stranger / With ruth and some with envy come.
- He mourned too late
- In ruth for the rending of the Round Table.
Derived terms
* ruthful * ruthlessAnagrams
*aaron
English
Proper noun
(Aarons)- And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Moses, and he said, is not Aaron the Levite thy brother? I know that he can speak well.
- - - - the Junior Prom with boys whose names are right out of the grade-school reader, not Aaron and Arnold and Marvin, but Johnny and Billy and Jimmy and Tod. Not Portnoy or Pincus, but Smith and Jones and Brown!