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Bewared vs Bewares - What's the difference?

bewared | bewares |

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

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Verb

(head)
  • (obsolete) (beware)
  • * 1854 , , Robert Bell (ed.), The Cock and the Fox'' in ''The Poetical Works , page 61
  • But idiots only may be cozened twice:
    Once warned is well bewared ; [...]
  • * 1868 , Charles R. Sumner (trans.), , Accedence Commenced Grammar'' in ''The Prose Works , page 445
  • Cavissem, si prævidissem, I had bewared if I had foreseen.
  • * 1864 , Frank Forester, The Complete Manual for Young Sportsmen , page 77
  • Like the proverbial man of one book, the man of one gun is to be bewared .

    bewares

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (obsolete) (beware)
  • * 1818 , Lucy Aikin, Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth , page 406
  • [...] a fool too late bewares when all the peril is past.
  • * 1859 , Robert South, Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions , page 71
  • Repentance bewails those sins that a man has committed, and bewares of those which as yet he has not; [...]
  • * 1918 , Horace M. Kallen (trans.), Hans Gross, Criminal Psychology , page 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.