Berays vs Bewrays - What's the difference?
berays | bewrays |
(beray)
To make foul; befoul; soil.
* 1652 , ,
(bewray)
(obsolete) To expose a deception.
(archaic) To accuse; malign; speak evil of.
To reveal; divulge; make known; declare; inform.
To expose a person, rat someone out.
*1850 , The Gentleman's magazine: Volume 189:
* 1890 , The Times , 16 June, page 8, col. A
To divulge a secret.
To disclose or reveal (usually with reference to a person's identity or true character) perfidiously, prejudicially, or to one's discredit or harm; betray; expose.
*1916 , John Lyly, Euphues :
To reveal or disclose unintentionally or incidentally; show the presence or true character of; show or make visible.
* 1905 , The Times , 22 August, page 6, col. A
As verbs the difference between berays and bewrays
is that berays is (beray) while bewrays is (bewray).berays
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(head)beray
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(en verb)- Also it is said, that if a woman take a needle, and beray it with dung, and then wrap it up in earth, in which the carkass [carcass] of a man was buryed [buried], and shall carry it about her in a cloth which was used at the funerall, that no man shall be able to ly [have sex] with her as long as she hath it about her.
Anagrams
* * * *bewrays
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*bewray
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Etymology 1
From (etyl) bewraien, bewreyen, equivalent to .Verb
(en verb)- "While . . busy search was diligently applied and put in execution, Humphrey Banaster (were it more for fear of loss of life and goods, or attracted and provoked by the avaricious desire of the thousand pounds) he bewrayed his guest and master to John Mitton, then Sheriff of Shropshire, [...]"
- I fear that if I was to attempt to detain you at length my speech would bewray me, and you would discover I was not that master of professional allusions which you might expect me to be.
- But to put you out of doubt that my wits were not all this while a wool-gathering, I was debating with myself whether in love it were better to be constant, bewraying all the counsels, or secret, being ready every hour to flinch.
- His very speeches bewray the man – intensely human, frank and single-hearted
