Sithen vs Sitten - What's the difference?
sithen | sitten |
(obsolete) From or since the time that.
(obsolete) since then, after that.
*1810 , Legh Richmond, The fathers of the English church :
Seated.
*a1513 , W. Dunbar, Poems (1998) 155 :
*c1560 , A. Scott, Poems (S.T.S.) ii. 38 :
Settled; stationary; not easily stirred or moved.
*1671 , J. Livingston, Let. to Parishoners Ancram 15 :
As a conjunction sithen
is (obsolete) from or since the time that.As a noun sitten is
.sithen
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Alternative forms
* sethenConjunction
(English Conjunctions)sitten
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* (l)Verb
(head)- For though we your brethren, who heretofore by our vocation have sitten in the chair of Moses, and be ghostly captains as Moses and Joshua unto you; [...]
Adjective
(en adjective)- The tail?eour was no thing weill sittin , He left the sadill.
- He micht counter Will on horss, For Sym wes bettir sittin Nor Will.
- Their fire edge might help to kindle-up old sitten -up professours.