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Etymologies
- From be- + knight. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The key here is that we have certain abilities capabilities rights as human beings (bearing a child is one a woman has that a man does not) and that our Constitution does not beknight any of us, but rather it specifies some Rights so nobody can misconstrue that they aren't included.”
“Mark Field: I’m happy to beknight them all — though at the risk of being accused of being a Leninist — but I think you have my name attached to someone else’s quote.”
The Volokh Conspiracy » Further to Andrew Ferguson on Behavioral Economics
“I’m happy to beknight them all — though at the risk of being accused of being a Leninist — but I think you have my name attached to someone else’s quote.”
The Volokh Conspiracy » Further to Andrew Ferguson on Behavioral Economics
“Well, if by that, they’re implicitly drawing a distinction with journalists... aka “gerbilists” they should beknight the guy who invented that term... then it’s a distinction without a difference.”
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Belistful
Tubey or not tubey.
belittle, bedazzle, besiege, besmirch, bespeckle, beget, bemoan, befuddle, befriend, become, besot, becloud and 596 more...
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Belist
Be- verbs (or verbals).
Words bewet through becalm were gratefully cribbed from Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Be-bewitch, bedeck, bedaub, become, bewilder, beknight, bereave, believe, behead, besiege, bespeak, befriend and 53 more...
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chrisjones v. tran. - to hold in high esteem (esp. when inappropriately)
I prefer the reflexive construction.
EG:
"There once was a man so beknighted
that he never knew when he’d been slighted
so he went to a party
and ate just as hearty
as if he’d been really invited"
Retrieved from http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/english/534/beknighted/ Jan 8, 2007