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Betide vs Betime - What's the difference?

betide | betime |

In lang=en terms the difference between betide and betime

is that betide is to happen; to take place; to bechance or befall while betime is to occur; betide.

As verbs the difference between betide and betime

is that betide is to happen to while betime is to occur; betide.

As an adverb betime is

betimes.

betide

English

Verb

  • To happen to.
  • To happen; to take place; to bechance or befall.

    • Derived terms

    * woe betide

    betime

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) .

    Verb

    (betim)
  • To occur; betide.

    • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) .

    Adverb

    (-)
  • betimes
  • * {{quote-book, year=1868, author=Mary Frances Cusack, title=An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Send succours (lords), and stop the rage betime , Before the wound do grow uncurable; For being green, there is great hope of help." }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1907, author=Michael Drayton, title=Minor Poems of Michael Drayton, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Her feature all as fresh aboue, As is the grasse that grows by Doue, as lyth as lasse of Kent: Her skin as soft as Lemster wooll, As white as snow on peakish hull, or Swanne that swims in Trent. 30 This mayden in a morne betime , Went forth when May was in her prime, to get sweet Cetywall, The hony-suckle, the Harlocke, The Lilly and the Lady-smocke, to decke her summer hall. }}

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