Thorn vs Spite - What's the difference?
thorn | spite |
A sharp protective spine of a plant.
Any shrub or small tree that bears thorns.
(figurative) That which pricks or annoys; anything troublesome.
* Bible, 2 Corinthians xii. 7
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A letter of the Latin alphabet (capital:'' Þ''', ''small:'' '''þ'''), borrowed by Old English from the futhark to represent a dental fricative, then not distinguished from eth, but in modern use (in Icelandic and other languages, but no longer in English) used only for the voiceless dental fricative found in English '' '''th igh
* See also Etymology of ye (definite article).
To pierce with, or as if with, a
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Ill will or hatred toward another, accompanied with the disposition to irritate, annoy, or thwart; a desire to vex or injure; petty malice; grudge; rancor.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) Vexation; chagrin; mortification.
To treat maliciously; to try to injure or thwart.
(obsolete) To be angry at; to hate.
To fill with spite; to offend; to vex.
As nouns the difference between thorn and spite
is that thorn is a sharp protective spine of a plant while spite is ill will or hatred toward another, accompanied with the disposition to irritate, annoy, or thwart; a desire to vex or injure; petty malice; grudge; rancor.As verbs the difference between thorn and spite
is that thorn is to pierce with, or as if with, a thorn while spite is to treat maliciously; to try to injure or thwart.As a proper noun Thorn
is {{surname|topographic|from=Middle English}} for someone living near a thorn bush.As a preposition spite is
notwithstanding; despite.thorn
English
(wikipedia thorn)Noun
(en noun)- the white thorn'''; the cockspur '''thorn
- There was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me.
- The guilt of empire, all its thorns and cares, / Be only mine.
Derived terms
* thorn apple * thorn broom * thornbush * thorn devil * thorn hopper * thorn in one's side * Thornton * thornyVerb
(en verb)citation
See also
* eth, edh, * wynn, wen, *Anagrams
* * ----spite
English
Etymology 1
From a shortening of (etyl) despit, from (etyl) despit (whence despite). Compare also Dutch spijt.Noun
(en-noun)- He was so filled with spite for his ex-wife, he could not hold down a job.
- They did it just for spite .
- This is the deadly spite that angers.
- "The time is out of joint: O cursed spite." Shakespeare, Hamlet
Verb
(spit)- She soon married again, to spite her ex-husband.
- The Danes, then pagans, spited places of religion. — Fuller.
- Darius, spited at the Magi, endeavoured to abolish not only their learning, but their language. — Sir. W. Temple.
