Waltered vs Weltered - What's the difference?
waltered | weltered |
(walter)
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* ~1590 , Henry VI, Part II, Act IV, Scene I
* 1991 , Talking It Over , ISBN 0-224-03157-0 page 13:
(welter)
general confusion; disorderly mixture; aimless effort; as, a welter of papers and magazines
to roll; to wallow
(intransitive, sometimes, figurative) to be soaked or steeped in.
* Latimer
* Spenser
* Landor
To rise and fall, as waves; to tumble over, as billows.
* Milton
* Wordsworth
* Trench
Of horsemen, heavyweight; as, a welter race.
To wither; to wilt.
* I. Taylor
As verbs the difference between waltered and weltered
is that waltered is past tense of walter while weltered is past tense of welter.waltered
English
Verb
(head)Walter
English
Proper noun
(en proper noun)- Whitmore . And so am I; my name is Walter Whitmore. / How now! why start'st thou? what! doth death affright?
- Suffolk''. Thy name affrights me, in whose sound is death. / A cunning man did calculate my birth, / And told me that by ''Water'' I should die. / Yet let not this make thee be bloody-minded; / Thy name is - ''Gaultier , being rightly sounded.
- And with some appellations, the contrary applies. Like Walter', for instance. You can't be '''Walter''' in a pram. You can't be ' Walter until you're about seventy-five in my view.
weltered
English
Verb
(head)welter
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl), from (etyl). Cognates include (etyl) (m) ((etyl) .Noun
(en noun)Verb
(en verb)- When we welter in pleasures and idleness, then we eat and drink with drunkards.
- These wizards welter in wealth's waves.
- the priests at the altar weltering in their blood
- the weltering waves
- waves that, hardly weltering , die away
- through this blindly weltering sea
Derived terms
* (l)Etymology 2
Adjective
Derived terms
* welter-weightEtymology 3
Compare wilt (intransitive verb).Verb
(en verb)- Weltered hearts and blighted memories.