Authority vs Treasure - What's the difference?
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(label) The power to enforce rules or give orders.
* 1883 , (Howard Pyle), (The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood)
(label) Persons in command; specifically, government.
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, title= (label) A person accepted as a source of reliable information on a subject.
* 1930 September 18, Albert Einstein, as quoted in Albert Einstein: Creator and Rebel (1988) by Banesh Hoffman
(uncountable) A collection of valuable things; accumulated wealth; a stock of money, jewels, etc.
* 1883 , (Robert Louis Stevenson), (Treasure Island) Chapter 20
(countable) Anything greatly valued.
* Bible, Exodus xix. 5
* 1681 , (Nahum Tate), (The History of King Lear)
* 1946 , (Ernest Tubb), Filipino Baby
(countable)
* 1922 , (Francis Rufus Bellamy), A Flash of Gold
(of a person or thing) To consider to be precious.
* 19th century , (Eliza Cook),
To store or stow in a safe place.
* 1825 , (Walter Scott),
As nouns the difference between authority and treasure
is that authority is (label) the power to enforce rules or give orders while treasure is (uncountable) a collection of valuable things; accumulated wealth; a stock of money, jewels, etc.As a verb treasure is
(of a person or thing) to consider to be precious.authority
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Alternative forms
* authourity (obsolete)Noun
- But in the meantime Robin Hood and his band lived quietly in Sherwood Forest, without showing their faces abroad, for Robin knew that it would not be wise for him to be seen in the neighborhood of Nottingham, those in authority being very wroth with him.
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- To punish me for my contempt of authority', Fate has made me an ' authority myself.
Derived terms
* moral authorityStatistics
* English terms derived from Latintreasure
English
Alternative forms
* treasuer (chiefly archaic)Noun
- "Now," resumed Silver, "here it is. You give us the chart to get the treasure' by, and drop shooting poor seamen and stoving of their heads in while asleep. You do that, and we'll offer you a choice. Either you come aboard along of us, once the ' treasure shipped, and then I'll give you my affy-davy, upon my word of honour, to clap you somewhere safe ashore.
- Ye shall be peculiar treasure unto me.
- I found the whole to answer your Account of it, a Heap of Jewels, unstrung and unpolisht; yet so dazling in their Disorder, that I soon perceiv'd I had seiz'd a Treasure .
- She's my Filipino baby she's my treasure and my pet
- Her teeth are bright and pearly and her hair is black as jet
- "Hello, Treasure ," he said without turning round. For a second she hesitated, standing in the soft light of the lamp, the deep blue of the rug making a background for her, the black fur collar of her coat framing the vivid beauty of her face.
Verb
(treasur)- Oh, this ring is beautiful! I’ll treasure it forever.
- I LOVE it, I love it ; and who shall dare
- To chide me for loving that old Arm-chair ?
- I've treasured it long as a sainted prize ;
- I've bedewed it with tears, and embalmed it with sighs.
- The rose-buds, withered as they were, were still treasured under his cuirass, and nearest to his heart.