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Wayfare vs Warfare - What's the difference?

wayfare | warfare |

As nouns the difference between wayfare and warfare

is that wayfare is (archaic) travel, journeying while warfare is the waging of war or armed conflict against an enemy.

As verbs the difference between wayfare and warfare

is that wayfare is (archaic) to travel; make a journey while warfare is to lead a military life; to carry on continual wars.

wayfare

English

Noun

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  • (archaic) Travel, journeying.
  • *1827 , , The Journal of Sir Walter Scott , 13 May,
  • *:What frightens and disgusts me is those fearful letters from those who have been long dead, to those who linger on their wayfare through this valley of tears.

    • Verb

  • (archaic) To travel; make a journey.
  • * Holland
    • A certain Laconian, as he wayfared , came unto a place where there dwelt an old friend of his.
  • *1904 , , The Dynasts , part 1, act 6, sc. 7,
    • The sea is their dry land,
    And, as on cobbles you, they wayfare there.

    Related terms

    *wayfarer *wayfaring

    warfare

    English

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • The waging of war or armed conflict against an enemy.
  • * Bible, 1 Sam. xxviii. 1
    • The Philistines gathered their armies together for warfare , to fight with Israel.
  • Military operations of some particular kind e.g. guerrilla warfare.

    • Derived terms

    * antiwarfare * asymmetric warfare * biological warfare * chemical warfare * class warfare * conventional warfare * cyberwarfare * e-warfare * electronic warfare * germ warfare * guerrilla warfare * information warfare * open warfare * psychological warfare * siege warfare * spiritual warfare * trench warfare * warfarer

    Related terms

    * war

    Verb

    (warfar)
  • To lead a military life; to carry on continual wars.
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