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Woe vs Wone - What's the difference?

woe | wone |

As nouns the difference between woe and wone

is that woe is grief; sorrow; misery; heavy calamity while wone is (obsolete|or|archaic|poetic) a dwelling or wone can be (obsolete|poetic) a house, home, habitation or wone can be custom, habit, practice.

As an adjective woe

is (obsolete) woeful; sorrowful.

As a verb wone is

(obsolete|or|archaic|dialectal) to live, reside, stay.

woe

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • grief; sorrow; misery; heavy calamity.
  • * Milton
    • Thus saying, from her side the fatal key, / Sad instrument of all our woe , she took.
  • * Alexander Pope
    • [They] weep each other's woe .
  • A curse; a malediction.
  • * South
    • Can there be a woe or curse in all the stores of vengeance equal to the malignity of such a practice?

    Derived terms

    * in weal or woe * woeful * woe is me

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete) woeful; sorrowful
  • * Robert of Brunne
    • His clerk was woe to do that deed.
  • * Chaucer
    • Woe was this knight and sorrowfully he sighed.
  • * Spenser
    • And looking up he waxed wondrous woe .

    Anagrams

    *

    wone

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) . Related to (l), (l).

    Alternative forms

    * won, wonne

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete, or, archaic, poetic) A dwelling.
  • * 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), '', Volume 2, vii:20 (''see also xii:11)
    • What secret place (quoth he) can safely hold
    So huge a masse, and hide from heaven's eye?
    Or where hast thou thy wonne , that so much gold
    Thou canst preserve from wrong and robbery?
  • * 1748 , , I:XXXVII
    • On the cool height awhile out Palmers ?tay,
    And ?pite even of them?elves their Sen?es chear;
    Then to the Wizard's Wonne their Steps they ?teer.

    Verb

    (won)
  • (obsolete, or, archaic, dialectal) To live, reside, stay.
  • * 1885 , , The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night , Night 17
    • Then we entered the city and found all who therein woned into black stones enstoned.
  • * 1596 , '', Volume 2, iii:18 (''see also i:51, vii:49, ix:52, and xii:69)
    • For now the best and noblest knight alive
    Prince Arthur is, that wonnes in Faerie Lond;
    He hath a sword, that flames like burning brond.

    Etymology 2

    Southern variant of .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete, poetic) A house, home, habitation.

    • Etymology 3

    From (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • custom, habit, practice
  • use, usage
    • Synonyms
    * (l)

    Anagrams

    * (l), (l), (l) ----