What's the difference between thou and thy?

Thou


Definition:

  • (obj.) The second personal pronoun, in the singular number, denoting the person addressed; thyself; the pronoun which is used in addressing persons in the solemn or poetical style.
  • (v. t.) To address as thou, esp. to do so in order to treat with insolent familiarity or contempt.
  • (v. i.) To use the words thou and thee in discourse after the manner of the Friends.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It is my desperate hope that we close out of town.” In the book, God publishes his own 'It Getteth Better' video and clarifies his original writings on homosexuality: I remember dictating these lines to Moses; and afterward looking up to find him staring at me in wide-eyed astonishment, and saying, "Thou do knowest that when the Israelites read this, they're going to lose their fucking shit, right?"
  • (2) Constant ribbing about his private life was compromising Deayton's position as the show's "holier-than-thou" host, who showed no mercy towards politicians or celebrities caught in a similar position, the corporation added.
  • (3) Similarities between Kohut's empathic relatedness and Buber's I-Thou are demonstrated as well as some congruence in their clinical views.
  • (4) At CPAC, conservatives dedicated an entire panel to “The Future of Marriage.” One could be forgiven for assuming it tackled the issue via the sub-topic “Gays, and the Ickiness Thereof,” because that was the default assumption among those attending CPAC as part of an ongoing More Jaded Than Thou contest.
  • (5) "Lest any holier-than-thou activists and politicians from other parties should forget, this is not just a Lib Dem issue, it is one that confronts women in all parties and in all professions.
  • (6) Members of the group will be on church steps again on Sunday, just as they were last week when dozens of Polish Catholics walked out of mass in protest at a bishops’ message stating that abortion is contrary to the “thou shalt not kill” commandment.
  • (7) Worse, it actually helps deflect anger from the Nigerian politicians robbing their own people to the “hypocritical west which acts holier than thou while helping steal our money”.
  • (8) Basically the problem is that the full I-Thou form in terms of Buber and Gebsattel can no longer be realized.
  • (9) The lesson is clear: when push comes to shove, obedience to God trumps human decency, to say nothing of obedience to the next commandment, "Thou shalt not kill".
  • (10) Such was the thou-shalt-not-pass determination as Pavey clenched her teeth round the last lap that it was a minor wonder she was able to smile so quickly afterwards.
  • (11) It was headed with the following Shakespeare quotation: "To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man."
  • (12) Now he's a social-smoking, foodier-than-thou critic at a "Food Rave".
  • (13) Why you should listen : “Answer not a fool according to his folly,” it says in Proverbs, “lest thou also be like unto him.” Jones’s appearance on Rogan’s show is a cautionary tale.
  • (14) Winnicott's notion of the creation of the subject in the psychological space between mother and infant involves a conception of the on-going constitution of the subject in the simultaneity of forms of dialectical tension between at-one-ment and separateness, internality and externality, I and me, I and Thou.
  • (15) She had read Martin Buber 's I and Thou , and the collected works of Carl Jung , and become fascinated with archetypes and astrology.
  • (16) According to the late Peter Wright, whose book Spycatcher revealed many of the secrets that he had carefully hoarded during his 22 years as an MI5 officer, new recruits would be expected to take to heart its 11th commandment: "Thou shalt not get caught."
  • (17) Goop You wouldn't believe the vegan snack I've just had…Gwyneth Paltrow, creator of holier-than-thou lifestyle guide Goop.
  • (18) Even at a time when other aspects of foreign policy – such as over Iran – are breaking with blind whither-thou-goest Atlanticism, the ossified Orwellian terms of the nuclear discussion go unchallenged by government and opposition alike.
  • (19) And for the hopefuls lining up outside the passport office: thou shalt not quibble about freedom of speech.
  • (20) It's when Rosalind says to Celia: "O coz, coz, coz, my pretty little coz, that thou didst know how many fathom deep I am in love.

Thy


Definition:

  • (pron.) Of thee, or belonging to thee; the more common form of thine, possessive case of thou; -- used always attributively, and chiefly in the solemn or grave style, and in poetry. Thine is used in the predicate; as, the knife is thine. See Thine.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Flow cytofluorometric analysis of the strain distribution of the molecules defined by the mAb revealed that two of the antibodies (I-22 and III-5) were directed against nonpolymorphic determinants of Thy-1, whereas V-8 mAb reacted only with Thy-1.2+ lymphocytes.
  • (2) Thereafter, donor type cells expressed an intermediate Thy 1.2 brightness; this population then persisted and surpassed the other subsets.
  • (3) Another five clones having phenotype Thy-1+, Lyt-1+,2- did not show any cytotoxic activity.
  • (4) The Thy-1.2 antigen, expressed on the surface of the lymphoma parent but not the fibroblast parent, was not detected on the hybrids.
  • (5) In our studies of the 131I-labeled anti-Thy 1.1 antibody treatment of murine lymphoma we have used cell binding assays with a combination of Lineweaver-Burk analysis to determine immunoreactivity and Scatchard analysis to determine antibody avidity.
  • (6) By labeling Thy-1-positive cells of rats with xenoanti-Thy-1 or mouse alloanti-Thy-1 antibody and separating them from Thy-1-negative cells on a fluorescence-activated cell sorter, it was shown that early lymphopoietic stem cells all carry Thy-1-antigen.
  • (7) The bone marrow derivation of dThy-1+EC is now well established: dThy-1+EC carry Ly-5 determinants whose expression is restricted to cells of the hemopoietic differentiation pathway, and studies using Thy-1-disparate radiation bone marrow chimeras have revealed the presence of donor-type Thy-1+ cells within the epidermis; by immunoelectron microscopy, these cells represent dThy-1+EC.
  • (8) The acetone pellet was solubilized using deoxycholate (DOC) and Thy-1.1 was purified by use of a Lens culinaris lectin affinity column and an AcA-34 gel filtration column.
  • (9) This inhibition was neutralized by purified Thy-1 antigen.
  • (10) Percentages of IgM and IgG bearing B lymphocytes, Thy-1 bearing T lymphocytes as well as monocytes in mouse peripheral blood were determined in a total of 50 mice of 11 different strains.
  • (11) Concanavalin A (Con A) and Interleukin 2 (IL-2) stimulated Thy-1+ EC mediated non-MHC directed cytotoxicity preferentially against the NK-sensitive target, YAC-1 vs the NK-resistant target, P815; these cells also mediated antibody-dependent cell-mediated cytotoxicity (ADCC), indicating the presence of IgG-FcR on at least some of them.
  • (12) Assays of a limited number of tumors for the expression of the Thy 1.2 and IgM molecules confirmed the diversity in the cellular phenotype.
  • (13) On the other hand, the elimination of bacteria from the spleens of infected animals was inhibited only by the application of either anti-Thy-1.2 MAb or anti-Lyt-2 MAb.
  • (14) While Thy-1- NK cells suppress the antibody response in vitro by suppressing or eliminating DC, Thy-1+ NK cells do not suppress antibody responses in vitro.
  • (15) The thymine-requiring (thy) Escherichia coli strains normally convert thymine to thymidine through the action of thymidine phosphorylase, an enzyme, whose synthesis is directed by tpp gene of the deo operon.
  • (16) Here, we used a panel of thymoma mutants, which synthesize Thy-1 but cannot express it on the cell surface, to study the GPI biosynthetic pathway in mammalian cells.
  • (17) The cytotoxic activity of nude-LAK cells was greatly reduced by treatment with anti-Thy 1.2 antibody plus complement but not with anti-Ly 1.2 or Ly 2.2 antibody plus complement treatment.
  • (18) Conditions for continuous culture of Escherichia coli K-12 His- Thi- under glucose limitation were established.
  • (19) The results of cytotoxicity assay after treatment with antisera and complement indicated that the killer cells mainly consisted of Thy 1+, Lyt 1-2-, asialo GM1-T cells.
  • (20) We confirm here using monoclonal antibodies that T-sRFC are Thy-1+CD3+.