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Synonyms for tares

Grammar : Noun
Spell : tair
Phonetic Transcription : tɛər

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Définition of tares

Origin :
  • "kind of fodder plant, vetch," early 14c., perhaps cognate with Middle Dutch tarwe "wheat," from Proto-Germanic *tarwo, cognate with Breton draok, Welsh drewg "darnel," Sanskrit durva "a kind of millet grass," Greek darata, daratos "bread," Lithuanian dirva "a wheat-field." Used in 2nd Wyclif version (1388) of Matt. xxiii:25 to render Greek zizania as a weed among corn (earlier darnel and cockle had been used in this place); hence figurative use for "something noxious sown among something good" (1711).
  • As in discount : noun reduction in cost
Example sentences :
  • Which is the wheat and which the tares, that must be garnered or sifted from our loves?
  • Extract from : « The Truth About Woman » by C. Gasquoine Hartley
  • She crawled about on her knees as she pulled up the tares and threw them into a basket.
  • Extract from : « The Fortune of the Rougons » by Emile Zola
  • I mix the tares when they are sown with a third of white pease and a third of oats.
  • Extract from : « Cattle and Cattle-breeders » by William M'Combie
  • Compare the lesson taught in the Parable of the Tares, Matt.
  • Extract from : « Jesus the Christ » by James Edward Talmage
  • Then shall the wheat be segregated from the tares, and the sheep divided from the goats.
  • Extract from : « Jesus the Christ » by James Edward Talmage
  • It buys whatever is offered it, and cannot tell of course the tares from the wheat.
  • Extract from : « The Physical Life of Woman: » by Dr. George H Napheys
  • It is an actual, material, final separation of the tares from the wheat.
  • Extract from : « The Parables of Our Lord » by William Arnot
  • The tares are the children of the wicked, and “the enemy that sowed them is the devil.”
  • Extract from : « The Parables of Our Lord » by William Arnot
  • Fill your pockets with tares or hay and feed him from his back.
  • Extract from : « Hints on Horsemanship, to a Nephew and Niece » by George Greenwood
  • These are the tares, or the children of the wicked one, in the church.
  • Extract from : « Sermons of Christmas Evans » by Joseph Cross

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