Upgive vs Upgave - What's the difference?
upgive | upgave |
(transitive, obsolete, poetic, Scottish law) To give up or yield up.
*{{quote-book, year=1811, author=Robert Bell, title=A System of the Forms of Deeds Used in Scotland
, passage=
*{{quote-book, year=1849, author=, title=Liberty's Triumph: A Poem
, passage=Then, too, are Jersey's sons all resolute, / Repairing to the camp in numbers great, / Their sufferings to avenge upon the foe, / Which all must cease should Jersey be upgiven .}}
*{{quote-book, year=1906, author=, title=The Dawn in Britain
, passage=There fell a sudden rain then, from the gods: / Which glisters, in the sun, like golden hairs; / And earth upgave sweet savour of her sod, / Mingled with iron stink of sweat and blood.}}
(upgive)
(transitive, obsolete, poetic, Scottish law) To give up or yield up.
*{{quote-book, year=1811, author=Robert Bell, title=A System of the Forms of Deeds Used in Scotland
, passage=
*{{quote-book, year=1849, author=, title=Liberty's Triumph: A Poem
, passage=Then, too, are Jersey's sons all resolute, / Repairing to the camp in numbers great, / Their sufferings to avenge upon the foe, / Which all must cease should Jersey be upgiven .}}
*{{quote-book, year=1906, author=, title=The Dawn in Britain
, passage=There fell a sudden rain then, from the gods: / Which glisters, in the sun, like golden hairs; / And earth upgave sweet savour of her sod, / Mingled with iron stink of sweat and blood.}}
As verbs the difference between upgive and upgave
is that upgive is to give up or yield up while upgave is simple past of upgive.upgive
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