Benim vs Bedim - What's the difference?
benim | bedim |
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*:and he had another vysyon / hym thoughte / that he came to a grete place whiche semed a chappel / & there he fonde a chayer sette on the lyfte syde whiche was worme eten / and feble / And on the ryghte hand were two floures lyke a lylye / and the one wold haue benome the others whytnes
To rob; deprive; bereave.
To rob; spoil; ravish.
To make dim; to obscure or darken.
* 1843 , '', book 4, chapter VII, ''Tha Gifted :
* 1905 , , Ann Wilson Hastings, Edward Hastings, The Expository times: Volume 16 :
* 1818 , , volume 3, chapter 7:
As a proper noun benim
is benin.As a verb bedim is
to make dim; to obscure or darken.benim
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* *bedim
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- Read in thy New Testament and elsewhere, — if, with floods of mealymouthed inanity, with miserable froth-vortices of Cant now several centuries old, thy New Testament is not all bedimmed for thee.
- There will be no folly, nor laughter, nor bedimming of truth [...]
- Often, when all was dry, the heavens cloudless, and I was parched by thirst, a slight cloud would bedim the sky, shed the few drops that revived me, and vanish.