Waught vs Waight - What's the difference?
waught | waight |
* {{quote-book, year=1882-1889, author=Various, title=Old English Plays, Vol. I, chapter=, edition=
, passage=This nobler resolution in you, Lords, Heartens me to disclose some thoughts that I-- The matter is of waight and dangerous. '' }}
* {{quote-book, year=1884, author=George MacDonald, title=The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, chapter=, edition=
, passage=By Heauen, thy madnesse shall be payed by waight , ] Till our Scale turnes the beame. }}
* {{quote-book, year=, author=John Dee, title=The Mathematicall Praeface to Elements of Geometrie of Euclid of Megara, chapter=, edition=
, passage=Now, when you haue two thinges Miscible, whose degrees are * truely knowen: Of necessitie, either they are of one Quantitie and waight , or of diuerse. }}
As nouns the difference between waught and waight
is that waught is while waight is .waight
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