Scourge vs Bane - What's the difference?
scourge | bane |
(uncountable) A source of persistent trouble such as pestilence that causes pain and suffering or widespread destruction.
A means to inflict such pain or destruction.
* Shakespeare
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A whip, often of leather.
* Chapman
To strike with a scourge , to flog.
A cause of misery or death; an affliction or curse
* Herbert
(dated) Poison, especially any of several poisonous plants
(obsolete) A killer, murderer, slayer
(obsolete) destruction; death
* Milton
A disease of sheep; the rot.
To kill, especially by poison; to be the poison of.
To be the bane of.
As nouns the difference between scourge and bane
is that scourge is a source of persistent trouble such as pestilence that causes pain and suffering or widespread destruction while bane is a cause of misery or death; an affliction or curse.As verbs the difference between scourge and bane
is that scourge is to strike with a scourge, to flog while bane is to kill, especially by poison; to be the poison of.scourge
English
Noun
- What scourge for perjury / Can this dark monarchy afford false Clarence?
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- Up to coach then goes / The observed maid, takes both the scourge and reins.
Verb
See also
* (pedia)bane
English
(wikipedia bane)Etymology 1
From (etyl) bane, from (etyl) bana, from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- the bane of my existence
- Money, thou bane of bliss, and source of woe.
- The cup of deception spiced and tempered to their bane .