belive

[ bih-lahyv ]

/ bɪˈlaɪv /

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before long; soon.

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1150–1200; Middle English bi live literally, with life, with liveliness. See by¹, life

Michelle Obama's Biggest Fashion Regret: Belive it or not, FLOTUS too suffers from fashion remorse.
Michelle Obama's Biggest Fashion Regret; LVMH Launches Contest for Emerging Designers|The Fashion Beast Team|November 21, 2013|DAILY BEAST
And that will lead the police to belive it was suicide you think?
Daisy Ashford: Her Book|Daisy Ashford
O could you know all what I suffered in my eventful life, you would indead belive that no romance is equal to reality.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 122, December, 1867|Various
I belive if the flag ship had not called us off Capt Clark would have went in along side of old Morro and give him a tutching up.
The Voyage of the Oregon from San Francisco to Santiago in 1898|R. Cross

I trusted you sufficiently, Jones, to belive you wouldn't have brought me on a useless errand at such a time of awful anxiety.
The Catholic World. Volume III; Numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6.|E. Rameur
Ther's one Bird was my tayler and I belive has my measur, or some old cloathes of mine, that he could make them by.
Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745.|Mrs. Thomson