different between unwonted vs seld

English

Etymology

From un- +? wonted. Redundant in form, as wont is by itself historically the participle adjective. Largely replaced earlier (and more correct) unwont.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?n?w?nt?d/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?n?w?nt?d/
• Homophone: unwanted

Adjective

unwonted (comparative more unwonted, superlative most unwonted)

1. Not customary or habitual; unusual; infrequent; strange.
   • 1610, The Tempest, by Shakespeare, act 1 scene 2

     Be of comfort; / My father's of a better nature, sir, / Than he appears by speech: this is unwonted, / Which now came from him.

   • 2003, Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything, Black Swan, pg.23:

     ...And ocean salinity, of course, represented only the merest sliver of my ignorance. I didn't know what a proton was, didn't know a quark from a quasar, didn't know how geologists could look at a layer of rock on a canyon wall and tell you how old it was, didn't know anything, really. I became gripped by a quiet, unwonted but insistent urge to know a little more about these matters and to understand above all how people figured them out.

   • 2008, Edna Lyall, To Right the Wrong:

     [...] enjoying in their quiet way the unwonted atmosphere of youth and happiness.

   • 2008, Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica:

     On the other hand, it was not so well known among them that Moses was always to be their ruler, and so it behooved those who rebelled against his authority to be punished in a miraculous and unwonted manner.

2. (archaic) Unused (to); unaccustomed (to) something.

Derived terms

• unwontedly
• unwontedness

Translations

References

• unwonted in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• downtune

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English selde (“seat, store”), from Old English seld (noun), neuter, metathetic form of setl (noun) (English settle)

Noun

seld (plural selds)

1. (obsolete) A seat, throne.
2. (obsolete) A shop. (In Medieval Latin records selda or silda (cf. Latin sella (“seat, chair”)); also in Anglo-Norman form seude). Also, a stand for spectators.

Etymology 2

From Middle English selde (adjective) and selde (adverb), a back-formation from Old English seldor (“more seldom”), seldost (“most seldom”).

Adjective

seld (comparative more seld, superlative most seld)

1. (archaic) Rare, uncommon.

   Synonyms: infrequent, scarce, uncommon; see also Thesaurus:rare

2. Unusual, unwonted.

   Synonyms: bizarre, odd, weird; see also Thesaurus:strange

Adverb

seld (comparative more seld, superlative most seld)

1. (obsolete or dialectal, Scotland) Seldom.
   • , Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.191:

     knowing how far such an amitie is from the common use, and how seld seene and rarely found, I looke not to finde a competent judge.

   Synonyms: infrequently, scarcely, uncommonly; see also Thesaurus:occasionally

Derived terms

• seldsome

Related terms

• selly

Anagrams

• Dels, EDLs, ELSD, LEDs, SLED, dels, sled

Norwegian Nynorsk

Participle

seld (neuter singular selt, definite singular and plural selde)

1. sold; past participle of selja and selje

Anagrams

• dels