Setdown vs Establish - What's the difference?
setdown | establish |
The humbling of a person by act or words.
A retort or a reproof that has a humbling effect.
To make stable or firm; to confirm.
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To form; to found; to institute; to set up in business.
* , (w) 6:18
To appoint or adopt, as officers, laws, regulations, guidelines, etc.; to enact; to ordain.
* {{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers), title=(A Cuckoo in the Nest)
, chapter=4 To prove and cause to be accepted as true; to establish a fact; to demonstrate.
As a noun setdown
is the humbling of a person by act or words.As a verb establish is
to make stable or firm; to confirm.setdown
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Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (humbling retort) put-down (Webster 1913)establish
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Verb
(es)- But with thee will I establish my covenant; and thou shalt come into the ark, thou, and thy sons, and thy wife, and thy sons' wives with thee.
citation, passage=By some paradoxical evolution rancour and intolerance have been established in the vanguard of primitive Christianity. Mrs. Spoker, in common with many of the stricter disciples of righteousness, was as inclement in demeanour as she was cadaverous in aspect.}}