Beknow vs Benow - What's the difference?
beknow | benow |
To know about; have knowledge of; recognise; understand; be aware (of); be knowledgeable about.
*1856 , Homer, Francis William Newman, The Illiad of Homer :
*1859 , United States Congress, Congressional edition - Page 354 :
*1888 , The Argosy: Volume 46:
*1922 , Walter De la Mare, Down-adown-derry: a book of fairy poems :
To acknowledge; own; confess.
*1831 , Sir Thomas Wyatt, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas, The poetical works of Sir Thomas Wyatt :
As a verb beknow
is to know about; have knowledge of; recognise; understand; be aware (of); be knowledgeable about.As an adverb benow is
by this time; by now.beknow
English
Verb
- At length Alkimedon, his friend and comrade, right beknew it; [...]
- Do not think my reverend father that I am beknowing to all the affairs of the savages, there is a great deal wanting: they come to us about the affairs of their conscience, but as to the rest they consult us but little.
- [...] when I went bolt into his dressing-room, not beknowing he was in it — why it is not likely, sir, that he comes again.
- Know I as soon as dark's dreams begin Snared is my heart in a nightmare's gin; Never from terror I out may win; So dawn and dusk I pine, peak, thin, Scarcely beknowing t'other from which—My great grandam—She was a Witch.
- For unto Thee no number can be laid For to prescribe remissions of offence In hearts returned, as thou thyself hast said; And I beknow my fault, my negligence: [...]
