Wed vs Weld - What's the difference?
wed | weld |
To perform the marriage ceremony for; to join in matrimony.
* Milton
To take as one's spouse.
To take a spouse.
(figuratively) To join (more or less permanently)
* Shakespeare
* Tillotson
* 2008 , Bradley Simpson, Economists with Guns , page 72:
(figurative) To take to oneself and support; to espouse.
* Clarendon
possibly deriving from the (etyl) word for woodland. The family is mainly located in the Southern regions of England.
As nouns the difference between wed and weld
is that wed is while weld is game (animals, birds).wed
English
Verb
- The priest wed the couple.
- And Adam, wedded to another Eve, / Shall live with her.
- She wed her first love.
- Thou art wedded to calamity.
- Men are wedded to their lusts.
- They positively and concernedly wedded his cause.