bewray

American  

[bih-ray] / bɪˈreɪ /

verb (used with object)

Archaic.

1. to reveal or expose.

2. to betray.

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bewray British  

/ bɪˈreɪ /

verb

1. (tr) an obsolete word for betray

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Other Word Forms

• bewrayer
  noun
• unbewrayed
  adjective

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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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Example Sentences

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bewray

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 David Nichol Smith

The first sentence of Shakespeare’s speech runs: Should we be silent and not speak, our raiment And state of bodies would bewray what life We have led since thy exile. 

From A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles by Sir Sidney Lee

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 Theodore Parker

What be our cetera opera that bewray such an humour?

From The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2) by George Gillespie

"Hide the outcast; bewray not him that wandereth."

From The Underground Railroad A Record of Facts, Authentic Narratives, Letters, &c., Narrating the Hardships, Hair-Breadth Escapes and Death Struggles of the Slaves in Their Efforts for Freedom, As Related by Themselves and Others, or Witnessed by the Author. by William Still

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