What's the difference between myrrhic and pyrrhic?
Myrrhic
Definition:
(a.) Of, pertaining to, or obtained from, myrrh.
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Pyrrhic
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to an ancient Greek martial dance.
(a.) Of or pertaining to a pyrrhic, or to pyrrhics; containing pyrrhic; as, a pyrrhic verse.
(n.) An ancient Greek martial dance, to the accompaniment of the flute, its time being very quick.
(n.) A foot consisting of two short syllables.
Example Sentences:
(1) Many assumed it would be a fleeting, pyrrhic victory for Bundy until authorities found another way to tame him.
(2) But they fail to understand that if they got their way, it would be a pyrrhic victory.
(3) It wasn't quite a Saigon moment, but the scene did capture the essence of America's nine tumultuous years; great expectations, crushing lows, a pyrrhic victory.
(4) Unless CCS gets the public funding it needs to become a reality, it could be a pyrrhic victory.
(5) Officials conceded that the destruction of heritage-listed sites that they were trying to save may end up being a pyrrhic victory.
(6) In Hungary, the rightwing government won a pyrrhic victory when the public overwhelmingly voted no on whether to accept more migrants, but did not turn out in high enough numbers for the result to be valid.
(7) "If books are perceived to have almost no value, that fight seems pyrrhic indeed, as are the chances of professional authors, of even the most sought-after books, let alone those which are highly researched or costly to produce, making a living from their writing."
(8) But whoever wins control of what remains of the oil industry may find it a pyrrhic victory.
(9) Yet his victories were often pyrrhic, attracting more publicity precisely because of his reclusiveness.
(10) From a purely regulatory perspective, the language has recently won some important (though possibly Pyrrhic) victories - the Official Languages Act guarantees the right to communicate in Irish with all state and semi-state organisations (although whenever I tried sending Irish emails to government bodies during the journey they were ignored).
(11) Hitting out at Polish workers may have helped win the Brexit vote, but it was a Pyrrhic victory.
(12) For Mick and Keith, the news must have come with the dull thud of a pyrrhic victory, since they actually finished on level pegging with UB40.
(13) However, one senior BA pilot has warned that any company win would be a pyrrhic victory if the airline did not act to repair the damage it had done to internal morale.
(14) Angela Merkel's decision to cut nuclear power stations was celebrated by Green activists, but this victory was utterly pyrrhic as they were replaced by heavily polluting coal plants.
(15) It will be a pyrrhic victory for them, if it's a victory at all."
(16) The outcome would be likely to be a pyrrhic victory for the defendants whose reputation would be damaged by such a process, but the damage to the reputation of the court would, in all probability, be even greater."
(17) While outposts of civilisation fight pyrrhic battles, unplugging themselves from the web – "going dark" – the rest of us have come to accept that the majority of our social, financial and even sexual interactions take place over the internet and that someone, somewhere, whether state, press or corporation, is watching.
(18) It’s from the Greek historian Plutarch’s account of the battle that gave us the phrase “pyrrhic victory”, the kind of victory won at such cost that you almost wish you’d lost.
(19) Silvio Berlusconi's embattled government scraped through a confidence vote on Friday, winning what even one of his own deputies called a "pyrrhic victory".
(20) If yes wins, and Syriza duly falls, the victory for the European powers could prove to be pyrrhic.