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Pyre vs Yre - What's the difference?

pyre | yre |

As nouns the difference between pyre and yre

is that pyre is a funeral pile; a combustible heap on which corpses are burned while yre is .

pyre

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A funeral pile; a combustible heap on which corpses are burned.
  • :* For nine long nights, through all the dusky air, The pyres thick flaming shot a dismal glare. - Homer Iliad, p. 31
  • Any heap or pile of combustibles.

    • Related terms

    * empyreal, empyrean

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    * (wikipedia "pyre")

    yre

    English

    Noun

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  • * {{quote-book, year=1566, author=William Adlington, title=The Golden Asse, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=When their father and mother beheld them weep and lament still, they doubled their sorrowes and griefes, but full of yre and forced with Envy, they tooke their voyage homeward, devising the slaughter and destruction of their sister. }}

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