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warmest | wardest |

In archaic terms the difference between warmest and wardest

is that warmest is archaic second-person singular of warm while wardest is archaic second-person singular of ward.

As an adjective warmest

is superlative of warm.

warmest

English

Adjective

(head)
  • (warm)
  • Verb

    (head)
  • (archaic) (warm)

  • warm

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) (m), (m), from (etyl) (m), from (etyl) , with different proposed origins:
  • (etyl) .
  • (etyl) .
  • The dispute is due to differing opinions on how initial Proto-Indo-European *g??- evolved in Germanic: some think that *g?? would have turned to *b, and that the root *g??er- would instead have given rise to burn etc. Some have also proposed a merger of the two roots. The term is cognate with (etyl) (m), (etyl)/(etyl)/(etyl) (m), (etyl)/(etyl)/(etyl) (m) and (etyl)/(etyl) (m).

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Having a temperature slightly higher than usual, but still pleasant; mildly hot.
  • The tea is still warm .
    This is a very warm room.
  • * Longfellow
  • Warm and still is the summer night.
  • * 1985 , Robert Ferro, Blue Star
  • It seemed I was too excited for sleep, too warm , too young.
  • Caring and friendly, of relations to another person.
  • We have a warm friendship .
  • Having a color in the red-orange-yellow part of the visible electromagnetic spectrum.
  • Close, often used in the context of a game in which "warm" and "cold" are used to indicate nearness to the goal.
  • * Black
  • Here, indeed, young Mr. Dowse was getting "warm ", as children say at blindman's buff.
  • (archaic) Ardent, zealous.
  • a warm debate, with strong words exchanged
  • * Milton
  • Mirth, and youth, and warm desire!
  • * Alexander Pope
  • Each warm wish springs mutual from the heart.
  • * Addison
  • They say he's a warm man and does not care to be made mouths at.
  • * Hawthorne
  • I had been none of the warmest of partisans.
  • * 1776 , Edward Gibbon, The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire , Chapter 1
  • To the strength and fierceness of barbarians they added a contempt for life, which was derived from a warm persuasion of the immortality and transmigration of the soul.
  • (archaic) Being well off as to property, or in good circumstances; rich.
  • * Washington Irving
  • warm householders, every one of them
  • * Goldsmith
  • You shall have a draft upon him, payable at sight: and let me tell you he as warm a man as any within five miles round him.
    Synonyms
    * See also * See also
    Antonyms
    * (mild temperature) arctic, cold, cool, frozen * (caring) arctic, cold, cool, frozen
    Derived terms
    * * lukewarm * warmhearted/warm-hearted * warmish * warmly * warm up / warm-up
    See also
    * heated * hot * steamy * temperature * tepid

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) (m).

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make or keep .
  • * Bible, Isaiah xliv. 15
  • Then shall it [an ash tree] be for a man to burn; for he will take thereof and warm himself.
  • * Longfellow
  • enough to warm , but not enough to burn
  • To become warm, to heat up.
  • The earth soon warms on a clear summer day.
  • To favour increasingly.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
  • , chapter=5 citation , passage=Mr. Campion appeared suitably impressed and she warmed to him. He was very easy to talk to with those long clown lines in his pale face, a natural goon, born rather too early she suspected.}}
  • To become ardent or animated.
  • The speaker warms as he proceeds.
  • To make engaged or earnest; to interest; to engage; to excite ardor or zeal; to enliven.
  • * Alexander Pope
  • I formerly warmed my head with reading controversial writings.
  • * Keble
  • Bright hopes, that erst bosom warmed .
    Derived terms
    * like death warmed over

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (colloquial) The act of warming, or the state of being warmed; a heating.
  • (Dickens)
    Shall I give your coffee a warm in the microwave?

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    wardest

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (archaic) (ward)

  • ward

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) ward, from (etyl) . Cognate with German Wart.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (archaic, or, obsolete) A guard; a guardian or watchman.
  • * 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.xi:
  • no gate they found, them to withhold, / Nor ward to wait at morne and euening late [...].

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) ward, warde, from (etyl) ; English guard is a parallel form which came via Old French.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Protection, defence.
  • # (obsolete) A guard or watchman; now replaced by warden .
  • #* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
  • the best ward of mine honour
  • #* (Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
  • The assieged castle's ward / Their steadfast stands did mightily maintain.
  • #* (John Dryden) (1631-1700)
  • For want of other ward , / He lifted up his hand, his front to guard.
  • # The action of a watchman; monitoring, surveillance (usually in phrases keep ward etc. ).
  • #* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , II.vii:
  • Before the dore sat selfe-consuming Care, / Day and night keeping wary watch and ward , / For feare least Force or Fraud should vnaware / Breake in
  • # Guardianship, especially of a child or prisoner.
  • #* 1485 , Sir (Thomas Malory), (w, Le Morte d'Arthur) , Book V:
  • So forth the presoners were brought before Arthure, and he commaunded hem into kepyng of the conestabyls warde , surely to be kepte as noble presoners.
  • #* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
  • I must attend his majesty's command, to whom I am now in ward .
  • #* (Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
  • It is also inconvenient, in Ireland, that the wards and marriages of gentlemen's children should be in the disposal of any of those lords.
  • # An enchantment or spell placed over a designated area, or a social unit, that prevents any tresspasser from entering, approaching and/or even from being able to locate said-protected premises
  • # (historical, Scots law) Land tenure through military service.
  • # (fencing) A guarding or defensive motion or position.
  • #* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
  • Thou knowest my old ward ; here I lay, and thus I bore my point.
  • A protected place.
  • # (archaic) An area of a castle, corresponding to a circuit of the walls.
  • #* 1942 , (Rebecca West), Black Lamb and Grey Falcon , Canongate 2006, page 149:
  • Diocletian.
  • #* 2000 , (George RR Martin), A Storm of Swords , Bantam 2011, p. 78:
  • With the castle so crowded, the outer ward had been given over to guests to raise their tents and pavilions, leaving only the smaller inner yards for training.
  • # A section or subdivision of a prison.
  • # An administrative division of a borough, city or council.
  • #* (John Dryden) (1631-1700)
  • Throughout the trembling city placed a guard, / Dealing an equal share to every ward .
  • # (UK) A division of a forest.
  • # (Mormonism) A subdivision of the LDS Church, smaller than and part of a stake, but larger than a branch.
  • # A room in a hospital where patients reside.
  • #* {{quote-news, year=2011, date=December 16, author=Denis Campbell, work=Guardian
  • , title= Hospital staff 'lack skills to cope with dementia patients' , passage=Many hospitals have not taken simple steps to lessen the distress and confusion which dementia sufferers' often feel on being somewhere so unfamiliar – such as making signs large and easy to read, using colour schemes to help patients find their way around unfamiliar wards and not putting family mementoes such as photographs nearby.}}
  • A person under guardianship.
  • # A minor looked after by a guardian.
  • #* , chapter=22
  • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=Not unnaturally, “Auntie” took this communication in bad part. Thus outraged, she showed herself to be a bold as well as a furious virago. Next day she found her way to their lodgings and tried to recover her ward by the hair of the head.}}
  • # (obsolete) An underage orphan.
  • An object used for guarding.
  • # The ridges on the inside of a lock, or the incisions on a key.
  • #*, II.1:
  • A man must thorowly sound himselfe, and dive into his heart, and there see by what wards or springs the motions stirre.
  • #* Tomlinson
  • The lock is mademore secure by attaching wards to the front, as well as to the back, plate of the lock, in which case the key must be furnished with corresponding notches.
  • #* 1893 , (Arthur Conan Doyle), ‘The Resident Patient’, Norton 2005, page 628:
  • With the help of a wire, however, they forced round the key. Even without the lens you will perceive, by the scratches on this ward , where the pressure was applied.
  • Etymology 3

    From (etyl) warden, from (etyl) .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To keep in safety, to watch over, to guard.
  • * Spenser
  • Whose gates he found fast shut, no living wight / To ward the same.
  • To defend, to protect.
  • * Shakespeare
  • Tell him it was a hand that warded him / From a thousand dangers.
  • * 1603 , John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays , II.3:
  • they went to seeke their owne death, and rushed amidst the thickest of their enemies, with an intention, rather to strike, than to ward themselves.
  • To fend off, to repel, to turn aside, as anything mischievous that approaches; -- usually followed by off .
  • * Daniel
  • Now wards a felling blow, now strikes again.
  • * Addison
  • The pointed javelin warded off his rage.
  • * I. Watts
  • It instructs the scholar in the various methods of warding off the force of objections.
  • To be vigilant; to keep guard.
  • * 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.viii:
  • They for vs fight, they watch and dewly ward , / And their bright Squadrons round about vs plant [...].
  • To act on the defensive with a weapon.
  • Synonyms
    * (to fend off) ward off

    Anagrams

    * draw

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