Betimes vs Berimes - What's the difference?
betimes | berimes |
In good season or time; early, especially in the morning.
* 1896 , , "To An Athlete Dying Young," in A Shropshire Lad ,
* 1902 , , The Hound of the Baskervilles , ch. 13,
* 1982 , (Lawrence Durrell), Constance'', Faber & Faber 2004 (''Avignon Quintet ), p. 786:
(archaic) In a short time, soon.
* 1898 , The High History of the Holy Graal , translated by Sebastian Evans, ,
* 1839 , Doctrine and Covenants 121:43[http://www.lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/121.43?lang=eng]
As an adverb betimes
is in good season or time; early, especially in the morning.As a verb berimes is
(berime).betimes
English
Adverb
(-)- Smart lad to slip betimes away
- From fields where glory does not stay.
- I was up betimes in the morning, but Holmes was afoot earlier still, for I saw him as I dressed, coming up the drive.
- However they dined very early, for the winter dusk fell betimes at this season [...].
- [O]ne prayed God right heartily aloud that He would send them betimes a knight that durst convoy them through this strait pass.
- Reproving betimes with sharpness...and afterward showing forth an increase of love toward him whom thou hast reproved...
