Demean vs Bemean - What's the difference?
demean | bemean |
To debase; to lower; to degrade.
* Thackeray
To humble, humble oneself; to humiliate.
To mortify.
To manage; to conduct; to treat.
* Milton
To conduct; to behave; to comport; followed by the reflexive pronoun.
* Shakespeare
* Clarendon
(archaic) Management; treatment.
* Spenser
(archaic) Behavior; conduct; bearing; demeanor.
* 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , V.5:
*:‘When thou hast all this doen, then bring me newes / Of his demeane […].’
* West
(obsolete) To mean; signify; inform.
To make mean or base, demean.
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Bemean is a synonym of demean.
As verbs the difference between demean and bemean
is that demean is to debase; to lower; to degrade while bemean is to mean; signify; inform.As a noun demean
is management; treatment.demean
English
Etymology 1
(1595) From . Compare English (m).Verb
(en verb)- Her son would demean himself by a marriage with an artist's daughter.
Synonyms
* debase * lower * degradeEtymology 2
From (etyl) .Verb
(en verb)- [Our] clergy have with violence demeaned the matter.
- They have demeaned themselves / Like men born to renown by life or death.
- They answered that they should demean themselves according to their instructions.
Noun
- vile demean and usage bad
- with grave demean and solemn vanity
Etymology 3
Var. of demesne.Anagrams
* * *bemean
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) bemenen, equivalent to .Alternative forms
*Verb
Etymology 2
From . More at mean.Verb
(en verb)citation, genre=Fiction , publisher=G. K. Hall , isbn=9780816161171 , page=85 , passage=I fished carefully, used wet flies and dry, all that I had in my book, and even bemeaned myself by baiting a plain hook with a grasshopper. }}
