What's the difference between bygone and olden?

Bygone


Definition:

  • (a.) Past; gone by.
  • (n.) Something gone by or past; a past event.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) And a telling line said by one character about Gustave's desire to recreate a bygone era could almost be Anderson's own epitaph: "His world had vanished long before he entered it.
  • (2) Though he thought it among his finest works, for many its accounts of bygone bureaucratic battles and reliance on internal memos render it a work of reference only.
  • (3) What better reason to get rid of it as an economically and ethically unjustifiable anachronism from a bygone age, exploited now only by the richest in our society so that they can get richer at cost to all the rest of us?
  • (4) The Alabama county argues that Section 5 is an unconstitutional infringement on "state sovereignty", and a relic from the bygone days of poll taxes and literacy tests.
  • (5) Adapted from a short story by Stephen King , the film was pure fiction – and in any case was set in a bygone age, when prisons everywhere were less open to scrutiny – so it was easy to suspend disbelief at that particular aspect of the storyline.
  • (6) Paleopathology is the study of human ailments in bygone times of which written records are non-existent or inadequate.
  • (7) Those of a more forgiving nature were perhaps willing to let bygones be bygones, especially given that the club can now look forward to a third successive season in the Premier League after the mid-season arrival of Pardew.
  • (8) Perhaps it was easier to tell the patient the diagnosis of cancer or its poor prognosis in bygone days than nowadays, when the wonders of modern medicine are too much publicized.
  • (9) It risks making visiting restaurants obsolete, just another bygone historical ritual, such as medieval banquets.
  • (10) Robert Senior, the chief executive of Saatchi & Saatchi, said: "The world of one-way communications is a bygone era.
  • (11) In 2010, an international team of researchers drilled almost 500 metres below the deepest part of the Dead Sea bed to bring up evidence of a series of epic bygone droughts, when the trapped water evaporated to precipitate deep, dense beds of salts.
  • (12) It doesn’t matter that the policies are from a bygone era.
  • (13) Economists normally advise that bygones should be bygones, but this might be the time to remember past favours.
  • (14) Monday mornings will continue to bring them the realities of school and discipline, but at least they will be spared the embarrassment of shouting the antiquated slogans of a bygone era.
  • (15) Will rooftop panels soon resemble the relics of a bygone energy age, like the enormous cooling towers of coal-fired power stations?
  • (16) As all the power-imbalanced recruitment is done out of sight, society is spared the scenes of desperate people queueing in the street for work, which was on full public view during bygone eras, but that doesn’t mean that they aren’t still there in what could be termed “post-ethical” phantom form.
  • (17) This body is populated by a motley collection of amateurs; leftovers from a bygone age, when Ukip was a ragtag band of volunteers on the fringes of British politics.
  • (18) Lord Steyn explained: "The part of section 3 of the 1848 Act which appears to criminalise the advocacy of republicanism is a relic of a bygone age, and does not fit into the fabric of our modern legal system.
  • (19) I'm always going to wonder why we can't just let bygones be bygones.
  • (20) Sylvia evokes a bygone era when iconoclastic young poets used to gather on weekends and listen to the latest recording of Robert Lowell reading his work.

Olden


Definition:

  • (a.) Old; ancient; as, the olden time.
  • (v. i.) To grow old; to age.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) • Harriet Harman gives a frank interview about the olden days, in which she reveals a passionate affair with Arthur Scargill.
  • (2) In the olden days there was a saying: ‘Raise children to look after you in old age.’ But these days we have a very good social insurance system so nobody thinks about whether family planning was a mistake.” Military powerhouse The consequences of China’s looming ageing population will be felt far beyond the country’s borders.
  • (3) Yet, through the final third of the 20th century, rheumy-eyed, scarred and bent-nosed ancients would shake their heads at his virtuosities, sigh, and insist that the big, bold champions of their far tougher olden days would have ambushed, cornered, speared and most damnably done for the swankpot in no time.
  • (4) It is possible that poorly selected or poorly pretreated emergency food have sometimes contributed to the death of famine victims in the olden times.
  • (5) The cell adhesion activity of another peptide from the 33-kD fragment, termed CS1 (Humphries, M. J., A. Komoriya, S. K. Akiyama, K. Olden, and K. M. Yamada.
  • (6) Löfven [umlaut on o], a former welder with a boxer's nose, faces the difficult challenge of trying to win back Social Democrat voters without looking like what Swedes call a betongsosse, or concrete socialist of the olden days.
  • (7) In strong periodicity, flight of time in itself shows a cyclic structure, but in contrary sense, aperiodical, strongly damped processes have a linear structure of tern part of the 20th century's sciences, but its philosophical model representation is able to be retraced until the zervanitic speculations of the Olden Iran.
  • (8) It sounds phoney and sad, as if all she wanted was a marriage and a life from the olden days, and it was more realistic to find it in a terrorist cell than to try to make it happen in Aylesbury.
  • (9) The nonglycosylated protein was twice as sensitive as the glycosylated protein to proteolytic hydrolysis in vitro as had been suggested by previous studies with intact cells [Olden, K., Pratt, R.M.
  • (10) "In the olden days, being a donor or supporter was much more black and white," he says, adding that now, people might "like" a charity on Facebook, which could in turn direct friends to sponsor a fundraising event.
  • (11) January 14, 2016 Morgan Jerkins (@MorganJerkins) The Oscars are gonna be so white that Chris Rock is gonna have to walk through the back door of the venue, like the olden days.
  • (12) In the olden days (that is, until about three years ago), prizes were everything – for prestige, but also for sales.
  • (13) In olden times it and sometimes also reindeer lichen (Cladonia sp.)
  • (14) And it doesn’t matter that there’s none of the traditional cachet that comes with a primetime slot at the Pleasance Courtyard, nor that in the olden days, this stick-not-twist venue choice would look like career stasis.
  • (15) Since olden times, people in Japan have burnt incense when they worshipped their ancestors.
  • (16) This paper remembers any facts of comparative linguistics which demonstrate remnants of a Protomongolian substratum in olden and living languages of Central Asia, the Near Orient, Europe, and the Canary Islands.
  • (17) True riders go commando under their shorts to avoid chafing and saddle sores, though in the olden days riders used to stuff a raw steak down their pants to stave off such injuries, which they would allegedly eat at the end of the stage when it was nice and tender.
  • (18) ; Sharrow, S.; Olden, K.; White, S.L., Cancer Commun.
  • (19) 48:1410-1415; 1988 and White, S. L.; Schweitzer, K.; Humphries, M.J.; Olden, K. Biochem.
  • (20) In the olden days we used to call this “phone calls” or “Skyping”.

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