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Sceptre vs Spectre - What's the difference?

sceptre | spectre |

Spectre is a anagram of sceptre.



As nouns the difference between sceptre and spectre

is that sceptre is an ornamental staff held by a ruling monarch as a symbol of power while spectre is an alternative spelling of lang=en.

As a verb sceptre

is to give a sceptre to.

As a proper noun Sceptre

is a village in Saskatchewan, Canada.

sceptre

English

(wikipedia sceptre)

Alternative forms

* scepter (US)

Noun

(en noun)
  • An ornamental staff held by a ruling monarch as a symbol of power.

    • Derived terms

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    Usage notes

    This spelling has become relatively common in the United States due to the tendency to adopt British spellings when referring to archaic terms or items.

    Verb

    (sceptr)
  • To give a sceptre to.
  • * Tickell
    • To Britain's queen the sceptred suppliant bends.

    Anagrams

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    spectre

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
    • The spectre is a ghost of a decapitated young man.
  • * Charlotte Brontë, Shirley
    • To this extenuated spectre , perhaps, a crumb is not thrown once a year, but when ahungered and athirst to famine—when all humanity has forgotten the dying tenant of a decaying house—Divine Mercy remembers the mourner

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