Wile vs Strife - What's the difference?
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(usually, in the plural) A trick or stratagem practiced for ensnaring or deception; a sly, insidious artifice
* Milton
To entice or lure
, "to pass the time".
Conflict, sometimes violent, usually brief or limited in scope.
As nouns the difference between wile and strife
is that wile is a trick or stratagem practiced for ensnaring or deception; a sly, insidious artifice while strife is conflict, sometimes violent, usually brief or limited in scope.As a verb wile
is to entice or lure.As a proper noun Wile
is {{surname|from=nicknames}.wile
English
(Webster 1913)Noun
(en noun)- He was seduced by her wiles .
- to frustrate all our plots and wiles
Synonyms
* beguilement * allurementVerb
(wil)- Here's a pleasant way to wile away the hours.
Usage notes
The phrase meaning to pass time idly is while away''. We can trace the meaning in an adjectival sense for while back to Old English, hw?len — ''passing, transitory''. We also see it in the whilend — ''temporary, transitory''. But since ''wile away occurs so often, it is now included in many dictionaries.References
* Grammarist.comWhile away or wile away?* Common Errors in the English Language
Wile Away, While Away----