Temptest vs Tempest - What's the difference?
temptest | tempest |
(archaic) (tempt)
To provoke someone to do wrong, especially by promising a reward; to entice.
To attract; to allure.
To provoke something; to court.
A storm, especially one with severe winds.
* 1847 , (Herman Melville), Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas , ch. 16:
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* 1914 , (Ambrose Bierce), "One Officer, One Man":
(label) A fashionable social gathering; a drum.
(rare) To storm.
(transitive, chiefly, poetic) To disturb, as by a tempest.
* 1667 , , Paradise Lost , Book VII:
* 1811 , , "The Drowned Lover," in Poems from St. Irvyne :
As verbs the difference between temptest and tempest
is that temptest is archaic second-person singular of tempt while tempest is to storm.As a noun tempest is
a storm, especially one with severe winds.temptest
English
Verb
(head)tempt
English
Verb
(en verb)- She tempted me to eat the apple.
- Its glossy skin tempted me.
- It would be tempting fate.
Derived terms
* temptation * tempter * temptress * tempt fate * tempt providenceExternal links
* * *tempest
English
Noun
(en noun)- As every sailor knows, a spicy gale in the tropic latitudes of the Pacific is far different from a tempest in the howling North Atlantic.
The Lonely Pyramid, passage=The desert storm was riding in its strength; the travellers lay beneath the mastery of the fell simoom.
- They awaited the word "forward"—awaited, too, with beating hearts and set teeth the gusts of lead and iron that were to smite them at their first movement in obedience to that word. The word was not given; the tempest did not break out.
- (Smollett)
Derived terms
* tempest in a teapot * tempestuousVerb
(en verb)- . . . the seal
- And bended dolphins play; part huge of bulk,
- Wallowing unwieldy, enormous in their gait,
- Tempest the ocean.
- Oh! dark lowered the clouds on that horrible eve,
- And the moon dimly gleamed through the tempested air.