Belive vs Belove - What's the difference?
belive | belove |
(intransitive, obsolete, outside, dialects) To remain, stay.
* 1900' (original date: '''1483 ), Jacobus (de Voragine), William Caxton, Frederick Startridge Ellis, ''The golden legend, or, Lives of the saints :
(intransitive, obsolete, outside, dialects) To abide, continue.
(obsolete, outside, Scotland) Quickly, forthwith.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , I.v:
Soon, presently, before long; by and by; anon
English words prefixed with be-
(obsolete) To please.
(obsolete) To be pleased with; like.
(obsolete) To love.
As verbs the difference between belive and belove
is that belive is (intransitive|obsolete|outside|dialects) to remain, stay while belove is or belove can be (obsolete) to please.As an adverb belive
is (obsolete|outside|scotland) quickly, forthwith.belive
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) beliven, from (etyl) .Alternative forms
* *Verb
- So there bleveth no more, but I that am servant to the spirit, may lie down and die. In which death I glorify myself, but I am greatly troubled in my mind, that my riches which I had ordained to God be wasted and spent in foul things.
Etymology 2
From (etyl) belive, .Alternative forms
*Adverb
(en adverb)- By that same way the direfull dames doe driue / Their mournefull charet, fild with rusty blood, / And downe to Plutoes house are come biliue [...].