Bewared vs Bewares - What's the difference?
bewared | bewares |
(obsolete) (beware)
* 1854 , , Robert Bell (ed.), The Cock and the Fox'' in ''The Poetical Works , page
* 1868 , Charles R. Sumner (trans.), , Accedence Commenced Grammar'' in ''The Prose Works , page
* 1864 , Frank Forester, The Complete Manual for Young Sportsmen , page
(obsolete) (beware)
* 1818 , Lucy Aikin, Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth , page
* 1859 , Robert South, Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions , page
* 1918 , Horace M. Kallen (trans.), Hans Gross, Criminal Psychology , page
In obsolete terms the difference between bewared and bewares
is that bewared is past tense of beware while bewares is third-person singular of beware.bewared
English
Verb
(head)61
- But idiots only may be cozened twice:
- Once warned is well bewared ; [...]
445
- Cavissem, si prævidissem, I had bewared if I had foreseen.
77
- Like the proverbial man of one book, the man of one gun is to be bewared .
bewares
English
Verb
(head)406
- [...] a fool too late bewares when all the peril is past.
71
- Repentance bewails those sins that a man has committed, and bewares of those which as yet he has not; [...]
86
- Then, if one bewares of voluntary mistakes, of exaggeration and unfounded assertion, if one builds only upon actual and carefully observed facts, an important and well-grounded discipline must ensue.