Wither vs Lither - What's the difference?
wither | lither |
To shrivel, droop or dry up, especially from lack of water.
To cause to shrivel or dry up.
* Bible, Matthew xii. 10
* Shakespeare
* Dryden
(figurative) To lose vigour or power; to languish; to pass away.
* Byron
* Cowper
To become helpless due to emotion.
To make helpless due to emotion.
(lithe)
* 1900 — , ch VIII
Bad; wicked; false; worthless; slothful; lazy.
* 1592 :
* 1653 , Thomas Urquhart and Peter Antony Motteux (translators), (1534), chapter XL
* 1850 , H. I. (translator), Reverand Thomas Harding, A.M. (editor), The Decades of Henry Bullinger, Minister of the Church of Zurich.'', ''Third Decade , The Parker Society, Great Britain, page 32
* 1920 , Charles Whibley, Literary Portraits, Ayer Publishing, ISBN 0836909887, page 63
As an adverb wither
is against, in opposition to.As a verb wither
is to go against, resist; oppose.As an adjective lither is
comparative of lithe.wither
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl), from (etyl) .Etymology 2
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .Etymology 3
From (etyl) (m), .Verb
(en verb)- There was a man which had his hand withered .
- This is man, old, wrinkled, faded, withered .
- now warm in love, now with'ring in the grave
- names that must not wither
- States thrive or wither as moons wax and wane.
Usage notes
* Not to be confused with whither .Anagrams
* whiter, writhelither
English
Etymology 1
See (lithe)Adjective
(head)- Doolittle and myself waited. Colebrook kept on cautiously, squirming his long body in sinuous waves like a lizard's through the grass, and was soon lost to us. No snake could have been lither .
Etymology 2
From (etyl) lither, lyther, luther, lithere, lidder, from (etyl) . See (l).Adjective
(en adjective)- Anon, from thy insulting tyranny,
- Coupled in bonds of perpetuity,
- Two Talbots, winged through the lither sky,
- In thy despite shall ’scape mortality.
- After the same manner a monk--I mean those lither , idle, lazy monks--doth not labour and work, as do the peasant and artificer; doth not ward and defend the country, as doth the man of war; cureth not the sick and diseased, as the physician doth; doth neither preach nor teach, as do the evangelical doctors and schoolmasters; doth not import commodities and things necessary for the commonwealth, as the merchant doth.
- Secondarily, let him which laboreth in his vocation be prompt and active; let him be watchful and able to abide labour; he must be no lither -back1, unapt, or slothful fellow. Whatever he doth, that let him do with faith2 and diligence.
- Thus he sketched an education which might have befitted a great king, without a word of ribaldry or scorn, and in such a spirit as proves that he gravely condemned the lazy, lither system of the monasteries.