bespoken
Americanverb
adjective
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of bespoken
1600–10 bespoken for def. 2
Example Sentences
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Observers wondered if the 20,000 were more acutely bespoken by General Pershing and Commander Savage than they were by often-wounded Captain Jean Piot, a contributor to L'Oeuvre.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Pentagon's bespoken spokesman Ken Bacon is getting to be the harbinger of a lot of bad news about the Kosovo situation.
From Time Magazine Archive
Since one cannot bespeak until one has been bespoken, until the telepathic potentiality has been sensitized by one clear reception, I had to get through to him first.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
She would have become again only another piece of jewelry in a shop-window—beautiful, but not for him; beautiful, but already bespoken.
From What Will People Say? A novel by Hughes, Rupert
For the crape hat–that was the accident–must indeed come, because it was bespoken.
From Hesperus or Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days Vol. II A Biography by Jean Paul
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