different between baneful vs bateful

English

From bane +? -ful.

baneful (comparative more baneful, superlative most baneful)

(archaic) Poisonous, deadly.
Harmful, injurious.
- 1792, Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, Penguin 2004, p. 32:
  This contempt of the understanding in early life has more baneful consequences than is commonly supposed […].

bate +? -ful

bateful (comparative more bateful, superlative most bateful)

(obsolete) Exciting contention; contentious.
- It did bateful question frame.

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