Wed vs Wen - What's the difference?
wed | wen |
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
A cyst on the skin.
* 1854 , (Henry David Thoreau), (Walden) ,
* 1973 , (Thomas Pynchon), Gravity's Rainbow :
* 1996 , (David Foster Wallace), Infinite Jest , Abacus 2013, p. 4:
As nouns the difference between wed and wen
is that wed is an alternative spelling of Wed.|lang=en while wen is a cyst on the skin.As a verb wed
is to perform the marriage ceremony for; to join in matrimony.As a proper noun Wen is
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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.
Synonyms
* marrywen
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)Walden:
- When I have met an immigrant tottering under a bundle which contained his all--looking like an enormous wen which had grown out of the nape of his neck--I have pitied him, not because that was his all, but because he had all that to carry.
- Creeps, foreigners with tinted, oily skin, wens , sties, cysts, wheezes, bad teeth, limps, staring or—worse—with Strange Faraway Smiles.
- I am debating whether to risk scratching the right side of my jaw, where there is a wen .