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Weeps vs Weepe - What's the difference?

weeps | weepe |

As verbs the difference between weeps and weepe

is that weeps is third-person singular of weep while weepe is obsolete spelling of lang=en.

weeps

English

Verb

(head)
  • (weep)

    • Anagrams

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    weep

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) wepen, from (etyl) .

    Verb

  • To cry; shed tears.
  • * Longfellow
    • They wept together in silence.
  • To lament; to complain.
  • * Bible, Numbers xi. 13
    • They weep unto me, saying, Give us flesh, that we may eat.
  • (medicine, of a, wound or sore) To produce secretions.
  • To flow in drops; to run in drops.
    • a weeping spring, which discharges water slowly
  • * Shakespeare
    • The blood weeps from my heart.
  • 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
    • Fair Venus wept the sad disaster / Of having lost her favorite dove.
    Synonyms
    * See also
    Derived terms
    * weep in one's beer * weepy * weeping willow

    Etymology 2

    Imitative of its cry.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The lapwing; the wipe.

    • weepe

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • * {{quote-book, year=1591, author=Edmund Spenser, title=The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 5, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=But all the rest, as borne of salvage brood, And having beene with acorns alwaies fed, 590 Can no whit savour this celestiall food, But with base thoughts are into blindnesse led, And kept from looking on the lightsome day: For whome I waile and weepe all that I may. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1592, author=Philippe de Mornay, title=A Discourse of Life and Death, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Then fall they to cry, to weepe , and to torment themselues, as little children that haue lost their play-game, which notwithstanding is nothing worth. }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1679, author=Beaumont and Fletcher, title=The Works of Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher in Ten Volumes, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Would thy Melancholy have a cure? thou shalt laugh at Democritus ''himselfe, and but reading one piece of this Comick variety, finde thy exalted fancie in Elizium; And when thou art sick of this cure, (for the excesse of delight may too much dilate thy'' soule,) ''thou shalt meete almost in every leafe a soft purling passion or'' spring ''of sorrow so powerfully wrought high by the teares of innocence, and'' wronged Lovers, it shall persuade thy eyes to weepe into the streame, and yet smile when they contribute to their owne ruines. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1851, author=Various, title=Notes and Queries, Number 63, January 11, 1851, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=The Springe neglectes his course to keepe, The Ayre continual stormes do weepe , The pretty Birdes disdaine to singe, The Maides to smile, the woods to springe, The Mountaines droppe, the valleys morne Till Jack and Tom do safe returne. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1890, author=Grace Wharton and Philip Wharton, title=The Wits and Beaux of Society, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage='A good play,' he condescends to say, 'I find it, and the actors most good in it; and pretty to hear Knipp sing in the play very properly "All night I weepe ," and sung it admirably. }}