bewray
Americanverb (used with object)
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to reveal or expose.
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to betray.
verb
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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
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However, their tongues bewray them; so I've violated no confidence.'
From Grey Roses by Henry Harland
Hide the outcasts, bewray not him that wandereth.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 377, March 1847 by Various
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 Lucy Foster Madison
What be our cetera opera that bewray such an humour?
From The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2) by George Gillespie
My sovereign, pardon the author of ill news, And I'll bewray the fortune of thy son.
From The Spanish Tragedy by Thomas Kyd
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