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Sudden vs Stound - What's the difference?

sudden | stound |

In obsolete terms the difference between sudden and stound

is that sudden is an unexpected occurrence; a surprise while stound is a tide, season.

As an adjective sudden

is happening quickly and with little or no warning.

As an adverb sudden

is suddenly.

As a verb stound is

to hurt, pain, smart.

sudden

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Happening quickly and with little or no warning.
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  • (obsolete) Hastily prepared or employed; quick; rapid.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Never was such a sudden scholar made.
  • * Milton
    • the apples of Asphaltis, appearing goodly to the sudden eye
  • (obsolete) Hasty; violent; rash; precipitate.
  • * Shakespeare
    • I have no joy of this contract to-night: It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden

    Antonyms

    * gradual * unsudden

    Derived terms

    * all of a sudden * sudden death * suddenly * suddenness * suddenwoven

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • (poetic) Suddenly.
  • * Milton
    • Herbs of every leaf that sudden flowered.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) An unexpected occurrence; a surprise.

    • Derived terms

    * all of a sudden * all of the sudden * of a sudden

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    stound

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) stond, stounde, . Related to (l).

    Alternative forms

    * (l) * (l), (l), (l), (l), (l) (Scotland)

    Noun

    (s)
  • (chronology, obsolete) An hour.
  • * 1765 , Percy's Reliques, The King and the Tanner of Tamworth (original license: 1564):
    • What booth wilt thou have? our king reply'd / Now tell me in this stound
  • (obsolete) A tide, season.
    • (Chaucer)
  • (archaic, or, dialectal) A time, length of time, hour, while.
  • * 1801 , Walter Scott, The Talisman :
    • He lay and slept, and swet a stound , / And became whole and sound.
  • (archaic, or, dialectal) A brief span of time, moment, instant.
    • Listen to me a little stound .
    (Chaucer)
  • A moment or instance of urgency; exigence.
  • (dialectal) A sharp or sudden pain; a shock, an attack.
  • * 1857 , Alexander Maclaren, Expositions of Holy Scripture :
    • No wonder that they cried unto the Lord, and felt a stound of despair shake their courage''
  • * 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.viii:
    • ere the point arriued, where it ought, / That seuen-fold shield, which he from Guyon brought / He cast betwene to ward the bitter stound [...].
  • A fit, an episode or sudden outburst of emotion; a rush.
  • * 1895 , Mansie Wauch, The Life of Mansie Wauch: tailor in Dalkeith :
    • [...] and run away with him, almost whether he will or not, in a stound of unbearable love!
  • astonishment; amazement
    • (Spenser)
    (Gay)
    Derived terms
    * ill stound * in a stound * stoundmeal * umbestound * umstound * upon a stound

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete, or, dialectal, intransitive) To hurt, pain, smart.
  • * 1819 , , Otho the Great , Act IV, Scene II, verses 93-95
    • Your wrath, weak boy ? Tremble at mine unless
    Retraction follow close upon the heels
    Of that late stounding insult […]
  • (obsolete, or, dialectal, intransitive) To be in pain or sorrow, mourn.
  • (obsolete, or, dialectal, intransitive) To long or pine after, desire.
  • * 1823 , Edward Moor, Suffolk words and phrases: or, An attempt to collect the lingual localisms of that county :
    • Recently weaned children "stound after the breast."

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) . More at (l).

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To stand still; stop.
  • To stop to listen; pause.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A stand; a stop.

    • Etymology 3

    (etyl) stound, stonde, stoonde, ston, from (etyl) . Compare stand .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A receptacle for holding small beer.

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