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Wolven vs Wolve - What's the difference?

wolven | wolve |

As verbs the difference between wolven and wolve

is that wolven is to curve, bend while wolve is to behave like a wolf.

wolven

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Of or pertaining to wolves; wolflike; wolfish.
  • *2004 , Marilyn Mattie Brahen, Claiming Her :
    • But the shepherd does protect the sheep from the wolf: therefore, few fall to feed the wolven cubs, the remaining sheep living long to rear more lambs and provide us with wool.
  • *2009 , Kate Douglas, Wolf Tales VIII :
    • Not a very wolven gesture, but somehow apropos.
  • *2011 , Gill McKnight, Indigo Moon :
    • “What I mean is, this marking you and hiding you away, it's very wolven . [...]"

    Noun

    (wolven)
  • One who is wolflike in appearance or character.
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    wolve

    English

    Verb

    (wolv)
  • To behave like a wolf.
  • Of an organ, to make a hollow whining sound like that of a wolf.
  • * 2006 , Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day , Vintage 2007, p. 784:
    • he had returned to his schoolboy's script, to distant Evensongs, to the wolving of the ancient chapel organ as the last light is extinguished and the door latched for the long night.

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