What's the difference between burgess and burgher?

Burgess


Definition:

  • (n.) An inhabitant of a borough or walled town, or one who possesses a tenement therein; a citizen or freeman of a borough.
  • (n.) One who represents a borough in Parliament.
  • (n.) A magistrate of a borough.
  • (n.) An inhabitant of a Scotch burgh qualified to vote for municipal officers.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) However, growing accustomed to “this strange atmosphere”, the Observer man became dazzled by Burgess’s “brilliance and charm”.
  • (2) Judge John Burgess told the men that their intention was “to do great harm in a peaceful community”.
  • (3) It’s not everyone’s idea of death, and I don’t know if I could do it either, but for Martin he was quite determined, obviously very determined right to the end.” Burgess visited his friend at her house the weekend before his death and did not tell her of any plans to end his life.
  • (4) Not everyone was enchanted by Burgess: Edward Crankshaw, for instance, was typical of the 1950s Observer .
  • (5) A hitherto unpublished report on the flight of Donald Maclean and Guy Burgess – two prominent members of the Cambridge spy ring – more than 60 years ago, says they could have been suspected sooner had the Foreign Office linked their bouts of extreme drunken behaviour to their spying.
  • (6) Janet Burgess is Islington council 's executive member for health and wellbeing.
  • (7) The year before West annointed a Gregory XVII, another one had appeared in Anthony Burgess ’s Earthly Powers (1980).
  • (8) Simon Burgess, a specialist PPI broker who claims to undercut bank rates by 50%, says: "It is easy to hide profits through wholly-owned subsidiaries.
  • (9) First, when he travelled to the Ashbourne set of Robin Hood to meet Russell Crowe and sign for the South Sydney Rabbitohs ; then when he was followed to Australia by his elder brother, Luke, and the twins, Tom and George, the quartet making history when they teamed up for Souths against Wests Tigers in August ; and this week when Sam, Tom and George were included in England's squad for the World Cup to leave Julie, the Burgess mother, feeling devastated for Luke.
  • (10) Less well known is that Burgess separately saw Redgrave.
  • (11) A labour economist, interested in behavioural change as well as poverty and fairness issues – unequal access to good schools, for example – Burgess doesn’t strike me as a Tory, judging by his CV.
  • (12) Burgess fled to Moscow with Donald Maclean in 1951 after being tipped off by Kim Philby, the "Third Man" in the Cambridge spy ring.
  • (13) We previously reported the cloning and sequencing of the gene encoding omega, which we call rpoZ (D. R. Gentry and R. R. Burgess, Gene 48:33-40, 1986).
  • (14) The FWC has yet to release its official finding, but shark expert George Burgess of the Florida Museum of Natural History in Gainesville said he had spoken to one of the commission's scientists on Friday afternoon, who told him "eye in hand" that he was sure that it came from a impressively-sized swordfish.
  • (15) The documents, released at the National Archives , include a letter Guy Burgess, one of the Cambridge spy ring, wrote to his mother shortly after meeting Redgrave, whom he described as his old friend, in Moscow.
  • (16) The gene for RNA polymerase subunit alpha is a co-transcribed with several ribosomal protein genes (Jaskunas, S.R., Burgess, R.R., and Nomura, M. (1975) Proc.
  • (17) But Scotland are the only squad with two pairs of brothers: the Hull KR forwards Jonathan and Adam Walker; and the Hendersons, Ian and Andrew, whose story is almost as appealing as that of the Burgess boys.
  • (18) Photograph: National Archives MI5 began to take close interest in her in 1951, at a time when the agency was desperate to prove that Philby had warned Burgess and Maclean that they had fallen under suspicion, enabling them to escape to Moscow.
  • (19) Those options should include the choice to end their life at the time and place of their choosing if they are suffering a terminal illness.” Burgess’s friend said she was choosing to speak to Guardian Australia in the hope that her friend’s legacy might help push along the “dying with dignity” campaign, which polls consistently highly in Australia.
  • (20) Previous studies (Lukas, T. J., Burgess, W. H., Prendergast, F. G., Lau, W., and Watterson, D. M. (1986) Biochemistry 25, 1458-1464) indicated the importance of positive charge clusters in the calmodulin-binding protein, myosin light chain kinase.

Burgher


Definition:

  • (n.) A freeman of a burgh or borough, entitled to enjoy the privileges of the place; any inhabitant of a borough.
  • (n.) A member of that party, among the Scotch seceders, which asserted the lawfulness of the burgess oath (in which burgesses profess "the true religion professed within the realm"), the opposite party being called antiburghers.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The Bilbao Guggenheim is a treaty port negotiated with the burghers of this rather down-at-heel city, part bullion vault and part glimmering mirage to cow and dazzle the natives.
  • (2) Sir Mick Jagger showed a sign of rigor mortis by refusing to serenade the burghers of Davos, but struts and frets his years upon the world's stages to little cogent effect.
  • (3) A closer look at the conception and evolution of Rodin's masterpiece, "The Burghers of Calais," amply illustrates this vision.
  • (4) With 18 years of parliamentary service under his belt, the 57-year-old Galloway had a good idea of how to win an election – even if he had suffered two recent black eyes at the ballot box, having failed both to charm the burghers of Poplar and Limehouse in 2010 after relinquishing his Bethnal Green and Bow seat, and to convince his old comrades in Glasgow to anoint him an MSP at last year's Scottish parliamentary elections.
  • (5) Corbyn’s – and Labour’s – opponents will seize on anything to paint him as an unreconstructed Stalinist itching to send the burghers of Kensington off to some marshy gulag.
  • (6) You may suspect the Burghers of Brussels of imperial overreach.
  • (7) If the pollsters are correct, the risk-averse burghers of Baden-Württemberg – with their locally assembled Mercedes in their garages and their jobs for life – may end up electing, by a narrow vote, Germany's first Green regional prime minister.
  • (8) Two ethnic groups--Moors and Burghers--were relatively over-represented compared with the proportion of these groups in the national population.
  • (9) It's a piece of news that no doubt had good burghers from the shires choking on their cornflakes .
  • (10) moelfabansuppers.com Jelly & Gin A driving force in Scottish guerrilla restaurants, Jelly and Gin's owners, Aoife Behan and Carol Soutar, have a suite of pop-up events in rotation, such as Burgher Burger, in which an established chef leaves their restaurant to cook burgers in a greasy spoon.
  • (11) Tickets for Burgher Burger cost £35, often including drinks such as craft beers.

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