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Beware vs Becare - What's the difference?

beware | becare |

As verbs the difference between beware and becare

is that beware is (defective|ambitransitive) to use caution, pay attention (to) (if intransitive, construed with of ) while becare is .

beware

English

Verb

  • (defective, ambitransitive) To use caution, pay attention (to) (if intransitive, construed with of ).
  • * Bible, Exodus xxiii. 20, 21
    • Behold, I send an Angel before thee. Beware of him, and obey his voice.
  • * , I.ii
    • Beware the Ides of March.

    Usage notes

    The verb beware'' has become a defective verb and now lacks forms such as the third-person singular simple present (bewares) and the simple past (bewared). It can only be used imperatively (''Beware of the dog!'') or as an infinitive (''You must beware of the dog'' or ''They told me to beware of the dog ). The inflected forms (bewares), (bewared), and (bewaring) are called obsolete in Fowler's , along with the simple indicative "I beware". The forms (bewares) and (bewared) are very rarely found in modern texts, though (bewaring) is slightly less rare. These inflections are more likely to be found in very old texts. The meanings conveyed by the obsolete inflected forms may be easily achieved by splitting "be" and "ware", conjugating "be", and possibly replacing "ware" with the more modern "wary"; thus, "bewares" > "is wary", "bewared" > "was wary", etc.

    becare

    English

    Verb

    (becar)
  • To care about; care for; provide or administer care to; take care of.
  • *1968 , Bruno Bettelheim, Love is not enough :
    • Counselors becare' you. They give you clothes and candy. Joan '''becares''' me, Marilyn loves me. My parents don't ' becare me, they're not counselors."
  • *1971 , Benjamin B. Wolman, Manual of child psychopathology :
    • Some little patients in the Sonia Shankman Orthogenic School, in comparing their counselors with their parents, stated that parents love, but counselors "becare ."
  • *2006 , John E. Staller, Robert H. Tykot, Bruce F. Benz, Histories of Maize :
    • As is well known, before mechanized agriculture, maize plants, like all New World crops, such as squash or beans, had to be individually hand-planted, becared , consciously selected, and harvested, with Old World type mass sowing, [...]
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