Rewrite vs Bewrite - What's the difference?
rewrite | bewrite |
To write again, differently (to modify).
To write again (without changing).
To write about; describe.
*1838 , The Yale literary magazine: Volume 3:
*1878 , Philip Dwyer, The Diocese of Killaloe from the Reformation to the close of the Eighteenth century :
*1926 , Blanche Colton Williams, Best American stories :
*2011 , The history of the Chronoswiss brand can only reach:
To write to.
*1905 , Charles Hallam Elton Brookfield, Frances Mary Brookfield, Mrs. Brookfield and her circle: Volume 1 :
To write; write from; copy.
*1850 , Donald Grant Mitchell, The battle summer: :
As verbs the difference between rewrite and bewrite
is that rewrite is to write again, differently (to modify) while bewrite is to write about; describe.As a noun rewrite
is the act of writing again or anew.rewrite
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* The verb "restate" has analogous senses "to state again" and "to rephrase, to state again differently".Derived terms
* rewritablebewrite
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- I vow and purpose, here in the presence of " Billy Shakspeare," to bewrite this ill-starred foolscap!!
- I humbly beg of you, for God's sake and your own, to read what I here presume to bewrite : [...]
- "I said it was a pleasureful thing to be thus bewritten upward. [...]"
- This harvesting bewrites the unhealable Monogrammed Beach Towels of affair and assenting a brew-house.
- After I bewrote thee yesterday Mrs. Neville drove Lady Charlotte, young Bagot (Clerk) and self into Glastonbury.
- And it was in just one of these accessions of strength, (which after all, I count only as seductive illusions,) that I found myself with pen and paper, bewriting page after page — sketching men and scenes that I thought you would be glad to see, [...]