Terreen vs Terrene - What's the difference?
terreen | terrene |
Pertaining to the earth; earthly, terrestrial, worldly as opposed to heavenly.
* (rfdate) Sir Walter Raleigh:
* (rfdate) Hickok:
* 1922 , James Joyce, Ulysses :
* 1974 , Guy Davenport, Tatlin! :
(poetic) The Earth's surface; the earth; the ground.
* Tenfold the length of this terrene . — Milton.
As nouns the difference between terreen and terrene
is that terreen is archaic form of tureen while terrene is the Earth's surface; the earth; the ground.As an adjective terrene is
pertaining to the earth; earthly, terrestrial, worldly as opposed to heavenly.terrene
English
Etymology 1
(etyl), from (etyl) .Adjective
(en adjective)- God set before him a mortal and immortal life, a nature celestial and terrene .
- Common conceptions of the matters which lie at the basis of our terrene experience.
- Arius, warring his life long upon the consubstantiality of the Son with the Father, and Valentine, spurning Christ’s terrene body, and the subtle African heresiarch Sabellius who held that the Father was Himself His own Son.
- For the earth was both celestial and terrene , the down here and the up there.