Signify vs Bemean - What's the difference?
signify | bemean |
To give (something) a meaning or an importance.
To show one’s intentions with a sign etc.
* (rfdate) (William Shakespeare)
* (rfdate) (Jonathan Swift)
To mean; to betoken.
* (rfdate) (William Shakespeare)
(obsolete) To mean; signify; inform.
To make mean or base, demean.
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As verbs the difference between signify and bemean
is that signify is to give (something) a meaning or an importance while bemean is to mean; signify; inform.signify
English
Verb
(en-verb)- I'll to the king; and signify to him / That thus I have resign'd my charge to you.
- The government should signify to the Protestants of Ireland that want of silver is not to be remedied.
- A tale / Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, / Signifying nothing.
Synonyms
* (l) * (l)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. }}
