Yearn vs Hearn - What's the difference?
yearn | hearn |
To long, have a strong desire (for something).
* All I yearn for is a simple life.
To long for something in the past with melancholy, nostalgically
To be pained or distressed; to grieve; to mourn.
* Shakespeare
To pain; to grieve; to vex.
* Shakespeare
* Shakespeare
(dialectal)
* {{quote-book, year=1857, author=S. H. Hammond, title=Wild Northern Scenes, chapter=, edition=
, passage=I've hearn it said that when a man has eaten a hearty dinner, and goes to sleep with the hot sun pourin' right down on him, he's apt to see and hear a good many strange things before he wakes up. }}
* {{quote-book, year=1905, author=Charles Felton Pidgin, title=Quincy Adams Sawyer and Mason's Corner Folks, chapter=, edition=
, passage="'Tis a trifle early, but I hearn tell that lyin' makes people hungry." }}
* {{quote-book, year=1910, author=Grace MacGowan Cooke, title=The Power and the Glory, chapter=, edition=
, passage=Like enough he's hearn of that silver mine, and that's the reason he's after Johnnie." }}
As a verb yearn
is to long, have a strong desire (for something) or yearn can be (scotland) to curdle, as milk.As a proper noun hearn is
.yearn
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Etymology 1
From (etyl) giernan, from (etyl) .Verb
(en verb)- Falstaff he is dead, and we must yearn therefore.
- It would yearn your heart to see it.
- It yearns me not if men my garments wear.
Derived terms
() * yearner * yearnful * yearnly * yearning * yearnsome * yearnyEtymology 2
See .Anagrams
*hearn
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