What's the difference between faery and fairy?

Faery


Definition:

  • (n. & a.) Fairy.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) (That diagnoses the figure of "loathsome Gluttony" in Spenser's The Faerie Queene , "Whose mind in meat and drinke was drowned so".)
  • (2) There are so few faeries, we call it a unicorn sighting,” he said, unwittingly giving each other the same word given to startups valued over $1bn.
  • (3) After Dreamdances, Kemp is returning to Italy to direct Purcell's The Faerie Queen and Puccini's Madame Butterfly.
  • (4) Images from countless Castro street fairs and Pride marches, of drag queens and kings, cruising and Armistead book launches, radical faeries and queercore artists, White Night riots and Aids vigils, anti-censorship demos and equal-marriage protests.
  • (5) As a type of fiction for adults, the genre was invented in the 19th century: Dickens's A Christmas Carol has the logic of fantasy, but George MacDonald's Phantastes (1858) is probably the first example of a full-length fantasy novel, revealing to its Victorian protagonist a dangerous parallel world of "Faerie" adventures.
  • (6) For example, clothes lying on the floor may become dead bodies or a ceiling fan might turn into a "faery" with the blades as wings and the central bulb as an animate, speaking face.
  • (7) Airbnb gay.” The “faeries” – which Cancél defines as those in the artistic, eccentric gay culture, the sort who founded the Castro as a gayborhood in the 1970s – are now more rare.
  • (8) It’s such a rare magical thing to run into a fellow faerie in the city these days.” At the Castro district Vanguard office, real estate agent Steve Huang said he finds the gay people moving to town don’t necessarily want to live in any specific neighborhood anymore but prioritize being close to work or Bart.

Fairy


Definition:

  • (n.) Enchantment; illusion.
  • (n.) The country of the fays; land of illusions.
  • (n.) An imaginary supernatural being or spirit, supposed to assume a human form (usually diminutive), either male or female, and to meddle for good or evil in the affairs of mankind; a fay. See Elf, and Demon.
  • (n.) An enchantress.
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to fairies.
  • (a.) Given by fairies; as, fairy money.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Mood Indigo (18 July) Arguably the most French movie ever made, Romain Duris and Audrey Tautou are quite adorable as fairy tale lovers in Michel Gondry's adaptation of Boris Vian's Froth on the Daydream.
  • (2) Above all, through the offices of his medium and lover, Mary Parish, he entered into elaborate relations both with the fairy world and with God and His Angels.
  • (3) 2 Attract the Comedian’s attention by having bewildering hair, wearing a necklace of multi-coloured fairy lights and launching two flares up into the lighting rig.
  • (4) The belief that heaven or an afterlife awaits us is a "fairy story" for people afraid of death, Stephen Hawking has said.
  • (5) Firstly, the intervention and example of the archetypal celebrity fairy godmother, Oprah Winfrey.
  • (6) She appeared out of nowhere, said a few words that no one could hear and then slowly made her way through the photographers to a cab and vanished: a great, big, fruitily dressed fairy godmother who, when you come to think of it, bears not the slightest resemblance to any of the other seven billion people on the planet.
  • (7) Star performers: Disney Fairies Tinkerbell soared 25.5% year on year; Disney & Me up 7.5% year on year; Power Rangers up 6.1% year on year; Ben 10 had a debut circulation of 70,012; .
  • (8) A leading member of Voronin's party, Mark Tkachuk, told reporters the claims were "fairy tales" and "low-life gossip".
  • (9) Dadd's three paintings Puck (1841), A Fairy – Sunset (1841-42) and Come unto these Yellow Sands (1842) are elegant and precise – the Puck is a baby, sitting on a mushroom in moonlight under a columbine dripping with dewdrops, among grasses also beaded with water, and watches much smaller naked dancers cavorting below him.
  • (10) My interpretation of the fairy-tale follows this direction.
  • (11) The remark evoked a defensive response from those wedded to the ephemeral virtues of the "confidence fairy" – and who are concerned to keep her benevolent figure hovering above Britain's severely weakened economy.
  • (12) 'The Fairy Feller's Master-Stroke,' symbolically re-enacts the murder and makes talion restitution.
  • (13) We suggest that the long process of painting 'The Fairy Feller's Master-Stroke' recapitulated and made restitution for the murder, encapsulating it so that compulsive expression of violent ideation was largely reduced, allowing other memories and activities to be engaged and expressed.
  • (14) Both superhero comics and fairy tales are equally popular with children: they create fantasy worlds full of violence and dangers which the hero must overcome.
  • (15) It would swirl around that child's head in the manner of a bad fairy from a storybook bringing along a cursed gift to a christening.
  • (16) This paper will review the meaning, usefulness, and importance of fairy tales by discussing three selections from the psychodynamic and developmental perspectives.
  • (17) These fairies have sharp, mischievous features, quite different from the later fairies of Bethlem.
  • (18) Two maturation fairy-tales with a high resonance effect are analysed.
  • (19) With more than 900 participants from 47 different countries, the festival will showcase new poetry from Simon Armitage and former archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, talks from the UK's poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy and the former US poet laureate Billy Collins, and events from a wide-ranging list of major names including Jung Chang, Margaret Drabble and Richard Dawkins – fresh from inciting controversy for apparently questioning the merits of fairy tales .
  • (20) Thus suitable fairy tale themes can enhance the experiential insight into dreams.

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