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Bemean vs Bemeant - What's the difference?

bemean | bemeant |

As verbs the difference between bemean and bemeant

is that bemean is to mean; signify; inform while bemeant is past tense of bemean "to mean, signify, inform"|lang=en.

bemean

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) bemenen, equivalent to .

Alternative forms

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Verb

  • (obsolete) To mean; signify; inform.

    • Etymology 2

    From . More at mean.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make mean or base, demean.
  • :* {{quote-book, year=1973
    • , year_published= , edition= , editor= , author=Alfred Bertram Guthrie , title=Wild Pitch , chapter= citation , genre=Fiction , publisher=G. K. Hall , isbn=9780816161171 , page=85 , passage=I fished carefully, used wet flies and dry, all that I had in my book, and even bemeaned myself by baiting a plain hook with a grasshopper. }}
    Usage notes
    * Wontedly used reflexively, as in "to bemean oneself"
    Synonyms
    * demean

    Anagrams

    *

    bemeant

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (bemean)

    • bemean

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) bemenen, equivalent to .

    Alternative forms

    *

    Verb

  • (obsolete) To mean; signify; inform.

    • Etymology 2

    From . More at mean.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make mean or base, demean.
  • :* {{quote-book, year=1973
    • , year_published= , edition= , editor= , author=Alfred Bertram Guthrie , title=Wild Pitch , chapter= citation , genre=Fiction , publisher=G. K. Hall , isbn=9780816161171 , page=85 , passage=I fished carefully, used wet flies and dry, all that I had in my book, and even bemeaned myself by baiting a plain hook with a grasshopper. }}
    Usage notes
    * Wontedly used reflexively, as in "to bemean oneself"
    Synonyms
    * demean

    Anagrams

    *