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Sane vs Fane - What's the difference?

sane | fane |

As verbs the difference between sane and fane

is that sane is while fane is .

As an adjective fane is

faded.

sane

English

Adjective

(er)
  • Being in a healthy condition; not deranged; acting rationally.
    • a sane mind
  • Mentally sound; possessing a rational mind; having the mental faculties in such condition as to be able to anticipate and judge the effect of one's actions in an ordinary manner.
    • a sane person
  • Rational; reasonable; sensible.
    • Try to go to bed at a sane time before your exams.

    Antonyms

    * insane * crazy * unbalanced

    Related terms

    * compos mentis

    Anagrams

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    fane

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) fane, from (etyl) . More at vane.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A weathercock, a weather vane.
  • * 1801 , John Baillie, An Impartial History of the Town and County of Newcastle Upon Tyne , page 541,
    • The ?teeple had become old and ruinous; and therefore the pre?ent one was built about the year 1740. It had, at that time, four fanes' mounted on ?pires, on the four corners; the?e being judged too weak for the ' fanes , were taken down in 1764, and the roof of the ?teeple altered.

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A temple or sacred place.
  • * 1850 , The Madras Journal of Literature and Science , Volume 16, page 64,
    • Fanes are built around it for a distance of 3, 4 or 5 Indian miles; but whether these are Jaina , or more strictly Hindu is not mentioned.
  • * 1884 , , Summer: From the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau , page 78,
    • The priests of the Germans and Britons were druids. They had their sacred oaken groves. Such were their steeple houses. Nature was to some extent a fane to them.
  • *, chapter=5
    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=He was thinking; but the glory of the song, the swell from the great organ, the clustered lights, […], the height and vastness of this noble fane , its antiquity and its strength—all these things seemed to have their part as causes of the thrilling emotion that accompanied his thoughts.}}
  • * 1993 [1978], (editor), The Secret Doctrine , Volume 1: Cosmogenesis, page 458,
    • And this ideal conception is found beaming like a golden ray upon each idol, however coarse and grotesque, in the crowded galleries of the sombre fanes of India and other Mother lands of cults.
    Related terms
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