What's the difference between hath and have?

Hath


Definition:

  • (3d pers. sing. pres.) Has.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) If the Westminster gang reneges on the pledges made in the campaign, they will discover that hell hath no fury like this nation scorned.” “We have never been an ordinary political party,” Salmond told his audience.
  • (2) Once more the English disease of giving to him that hath, particularly in London or the golden triangle.
  • (3) Photograph: Heritage Lottery Fund The cottage in Grasmere – which the poet called “the loveliest spot that man hath ever found” – was once a pub called the Dove and Olive Branch.
  • (4) Hell hath no fury like a mad techie scorned and, once the bill had passed, attention shifted to listing MPs who had vote no, or not voted at all – particularly those in marginal seats such as Glenda Jackson and Frank Dobson.
  • (5) Thirty days hath September, April, June, and November.
  • (6) A case of hell hath no fury like the former partner who isn't getting enough attention these days?
  • (7) Or maybe John of Gaunt had it right: “That England, that was wont to conquer others, Hath made a shameful conquest of itself.” Main illustration by Christophe Gowans • Follow the Long Read on Twitter at @gdnlongread , or sign up to the long read weekly email here This article was amended on 21 June 2016.
  • (8) Hell hath no fury like a Hollywood studio prevented from making vast amounts of money, in this case from slot machines based on beloved literary legacies.
  • (9) The property managers decided to tweet an appeal for people to help identify the text, and Breslin said that within an hour a tweet came back saying "Try Genesis 30:6", which reads: "And Rachel said, God hath judged me, and hath also heard my voice, and hath given me a son."
  • (10) "F alsehood flies," wrote Jonathan Swift 300 years ago, "and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale hath had its effect."
  • (11) Consider God’s handiwork: who can make straight, what He hath made crooked?” These words, from Ecclesiastes, pose a pertinent question.
  • (12) As senator Madigan hath stated ‘Submarines are the spaceships of the oceans’.
  • (13) Thomas Dekker groused that “the scene after the Epilogue hath been more blacke – a nasty bawdy jigge – than the most horrid scene in the play was”.
  • (14) If the Westminster gang reneges on the pledges made in the campaign, they will discover that hell hath no fury like a nation scorned,” Salmond told a rapturous audience at Perth conference hall as he handed over power to his successor as party leader, Nicola Sturgeon.
  • (15) "For whosoever hath, to [her] shall be given … but whosoever hath not, from [her] shall be taken away even that [she] hath."
  • (16) Hell hath no fury like a room full of disappointed Star Wars acolytes: a Disney boss at a high profile convention in California has been booed after admitting he had nothing new to tell fans about JJ Abrams' forthcoming Episode VII.
  • (17) David Cameron has briefed against his own chief whip, and may yet illustrate Jeremy Thorpe's quip about Harold Macmillan, an earlier Etonian premier: "Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his friends for his life."
  • (18) Verily, “For he that hath, to him shall be given: and he that hath not, from him shall be taken even that which he hath” ( Mark 4:25 ).
  • (19) My affection hath an unknown bottom, like the Bay of Portugal."
  • (20) Looking at her policies, I can only imagine her favourite Bible verse to be Matthew 25:29: “For unto every one that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundance: but from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath.” Austerity isn’t inevitable or even advisable, as the IMF, OECD and all the rest will tell you.

Have


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To hold in possession or control; to own; as, he has a farm.
  • (v. t.) To possess, as something which appertains to, is connected with, or affects, one.
  • (v. t.) To accept possession of; to take or accept.
  • (v. t.) To get possession of; to obtain; to get.
  • (v. t.) To cause or procure to be; to effect; to exact; to desire; to require.
  • (v. t.) To bear, as young; as, she has just had a child.
  • (v. t.) To hold, regard, or esteem.
  • (v. t.) To cause or force to go; to take.
  • (v. t.) To take or hold (one's self); to proceed promptly; -- used reflexively, often with ellipsis of the pronoun; as, to have after one; to have at one or at a thing, i. e., to aim at one or at a thing; to attack; to have with a companion.
  • (v. t.) To be under necessity or obligation; to be compelled; followed by an infinitive.
  • (v. t.) To understand.
  • (v. t.) To put in an awkward position; to have the advantage of; as, that is where he had him.

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