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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"Nay, then, must I bewray confidence and tell thee that one who knows assures me that Priscilla Molines would not say thee nay wert thou to ask her?"
From Standish of Standish A story of the Pilgrims by Austin, Jane G. (Jane Goodwin)
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
Hide the outcasts, bewray not him that wandereth.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 377, March 1847 by Various
Those grim and horrid Caues, Whose Lookes affright the day, Wherein nice Nature saues, What she would not bewray, Our better leasure craues, And doth inuite our Lay.
From Minor Poems of Michael Drayton by Brett, Cyril
My sovereign, pardon the author of ill news, And I'll bewray the fortune of thy son.
From The Spanish Tragedy by Kyd, Thomas
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