bewray
Americanverb (used with object)
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to reveal or expose.
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to betray.
verb
Other Word Forms
- bewrayer noun
- unbewrayed adjective
Etymology
Origin of bewray
1250–1300; Middle English bewraien, equivalent to be- be- + wraien, Old English wrēgan to accuse, cognate with Old High German ruogen ( German rügen ), Gothic wrohjan
Example Sentences
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Take the famous one of Volumnia: Should we be silent and not speak, our raiment And state of bodies would bewray what life We've led since thy Exile.
From Eighteenth Century Essays on Shakespeare by Smith, David Nichol
His noble aspect, and the purple's ray, Amidst his train the gallant chief bewray.
From The Lusiad or The Discovery of India, an Epic Poem by Camões, Luís de
I could not sing the shame of my country, Hakon; neither can I bewray my king.”
From A Maid at King Alfred?s Court by Madison, Lucy Foster
No, Boston could not bewray a woman wandering towards freedom, without chaining the court house and its judges, putting the town in a state of siege,—insolent soldiers striking at the people's neck.
From The Trial of Theodore Parker For the "Misdemeanor" of a Speech in Faneuil Hall against Kidnapping, before the Circuit Court of the United States, at Boston, April 3, 1855, with the Defence by Parker, Theodore
Which processe sith no man did yet bewray, It seems unlikely that the Comets be Synods of starres that in wide Heaven stray.
From Democritus Platonissans by More, Henry
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