Bespeak vs Represent - What's the difference?
bespeak | represent |
(lb) To speak about; tell of; relate; discuss.
*2006 , Janet Jaymes, Dirty Laundry: A Memoir :
*:But to bespeak of a love, heavily weighed upon a heart, toward someone opposing those sentiments encourages foolish and embarrassing repercussions he will never know about.
(lb) To speak for beforehand; engage in advance; make arrangements for; order or reserve in advance.
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*Sir (Walter Scott) (1771-1832)
*:concluding, naturally, that to gratify his avarice was to bespeak his favour
(lb) To stipulate, solicit, ask for, or request, as in a favour.
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To forbode; foretell.
To speak to; address.
*(John Dryden) (1631-1700)
*:He thus the queen bespoke .
(lb) To betoken; show; indicate; foretell; suggest.
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*(Jonathan Swift) (1667–1745)
*:[They] bespoke dangersin order to scare the allies.
*(John Locke) (1632-1705)
*:When the abbot of St. Martin was born, he had so little the figure of a man that it bespoke him rather a monster.
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*:This new-comer was a man who in any company would have seemed striking.He was smooth-faced, and his fresh skin and well-developed figure bespoke the man in good physical condition through active exercise, yet well content with the world's apportionment.
(lb) To speak up or out; exclaim; speak.
A request for a specific performance; a benefit performance, by a patron.
* 1839 , Charles Dickens,
To present again or anew; to present by means of something standing in the place of; to exhibit the counterpart or image of; to typify.
To portray by pictorial or plastic art; to delineate; as, to represent a landscape in a picture, a horse in bronze, and the like.
To portray by mimicry or action of any kind; to act the part or character of; to personate; as, to represent Hamlet.
To stand in the place of; to supply the place, perform the duties, exercise the rights, or receive the share, of; to speak and act with authority in behalf of; to act the part of (another); as, an heir represents his ancestor; an attorney represents his client in court; a member of Congress represents his district in Congress.
To exhibit to another mind in language; to show; to give one's own impressions and judgement of; to bring before the mind; to set forth; sometimes, to give an account of; to describe.
To serve as a sign or symbol of; as, mathematical symbols represent quantities or relations; words represent ideas or things.
To bring a sensation of into the mind or sensorium; to cause to be known, felt, or apprehended; to present.
To form or image again in consciousness, as an object of cognition or apprehension (something presentative, which was originally apprehended by direct presentation).
(Webster 1913)
As verbs the difference between bespeak and represent
is that bespeak is (lb) to speak about; tell of; relate; discuss while represent is to present again or anew; to present by means of something standing in the place of; to exhibit the counterpart or image of; to typify.As a noun bespeak
is a request for a specific performance; a benefit performance, by a patron.bespeak
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* *Noun
(en noun)- "By the bye, I've been thinking of bringing out that piece of yours on her bespeak night."
- "When?", asked Nicholas.
- "The night of her bespeak'. Her benefit night. When her friends and patrons ' bespeak the play."
- "Oh! I understand", replied Nicholas.
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(Webster 1913)Anagrams
* ----represent
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(Webster 1913)Alternative forms
* (archaic)Verb
(en verb)- He represented that he was investigating for the police department.