Betime vs Belime - What's the difference?
betime | belime |
To occur; betide.
betimes
* {{quote-book, year=1868, author=Mary Frances Cusack, title=An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800, chapter=, edition=
, 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=
, 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. }}
In lang=en terms the difference between betime and belime
is that betime is to occur; betide while belime is to besmear or entangle with or as with bird-lime.As verbs the difference between betime and belime
is that betime is to occur; betide while belime is to besmear or entangle with or as with bird-lime.As an adverb betime
is betimes.betime
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Verb
(betim)Etymology 2
From (etyl) .Adverb
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