Bewave vs Behave - What's the difference?
bewave | behave |
(Scotland) To shield; hide.
(Scotland) To lay wait for; overpower by means of some base stratagem.
To blow or toss about; blow, waft, or sweep away.
(Scotland) To wander or waver. (label) To conduct (oneself) well, or in a given way.
* Bible, ii. 21
(label) To act, conduct oneself in a specific manner;
*{{quote-magazine, date=2014-04-21, volume=411, issue=8884, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= To conduct, manage, regulate (something).
* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , II.iii:
(label) To act in a polite or proper way.
As verbs the difference between bewave and behave
is that bewave is (scotland) to shield; hide or bewave can be to blow or toss about; blow, waft, or sweep away while behave is (label) to conduct (oneself) well, or in a given way.bewave
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) biweven, .Verb
(bewav)Etymology 2
From .Verb
(bewav)behave
English
Verb
- those that behaved themselves manfully
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- He did behave his anger ere 'twas spent.
- who his limbs with labours, and his mind / Behaues with cares, cannot so easie mis.