Weepeth vs Seepeth - What's the difference?
weepeth | seepeth |
(weep)
To cry; shed tears.
* Longfellow
To lament; to complain.
* Bible, Numbers xi. 13
(medicine, of a, wound or sore) To produce secretions.
To flow in drops; to run in drops.
* Shakespeare
To hang the branches, as if in sorrow; to be pendent; to droop; said of a plant or its branches.
(obsolete) To weep over; to bewail.
* Prior
(archaic) (seep)
a small spring, pool, or other place where liquid from the ground (e.g. water, petroleum or tar) has oozed to the surface
moisture that seeps out; a seepage
A seafloor vent
As verbs the difference between weepeth and seepeth
is that weepeth is archaic third-person singular of weep while seepeth is third-person singular of seep.weepeth
English
Verb
(head)weep
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) wepen, from (etyl) .Verb
- They wept together in silence.
- They weep unto me, saying, Give us flesh, that we may eat.
- a weeping spring, which discharges water slowly
- The blood weeps from my heart.
- Fair Venus wept the sad disaster / Of having lost her favorite dove.