Betold vs Befold - What's the difference?

betold | befold |

As verbs the difference between betold and befold

is that betold is past tense of betell while befold is to fold up; fold around; wrap up; envelop.

betold

English

Verb

(head)

(betell)

betell

English

Verb

To speak or tell about; declare; narrate; describe.

*1938 , Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers (U.S.), Locomotive engineers journal :

Occasionally we do see some short-line road whose track and equipment are kept in such good repair as to betell of exceptional prosperity; [...]

*2001 , Donna Morrissey, Kit's Law: A Novel :

Sid's face disappeared and one of his cursed Gods was glaring instead, through gouged-out sockets that betold of his having loved that which was denied him, a law that not even legends could do away with.

*2009 , Dean R. Koontz, Odd Hours :

The air pooled in stillness because the winds had died and would never breathe again, and the silence betold a world of solid stone, where the planetary core had gone cold, where no rivers ran and seas no longer stirred with tides, [...]

To speak for; answer for; justify.

To lay claim to; win; rescue.

(rare) To talk about negatively; slander; calumniate; deride; deceive.

befold

English

Verb

To fold up; fold around; wrap up; envelop.

*1974 , Harrisene Jackson, There's nothing I own that I want :

And when I rant and rave and raise hell about the power structure and about slaverytood, and nigratood, and nigraism, and everything else that befolds me being a black woman every day, I still love people.

*2002 , Simon Monbaron, How to Develop Peace in the World :

So, brothers and sisters that is God's law and God's punishment that befolds a person who during their life does not acknowledge or feels the greatness of God and God's reality.

*2008 , George D. Shorten, The Low Bed of a Faller :

Abo sits befolded up Shadeside of a namma hole [...]