Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A makeshift; a substitute.
Wiktionary
- n. A makeshift; substitute.
Etymologies
- From be + with, in the sense of what one can be with or do with. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“I shall now hasten on, knowing that you will not love me less for having told you how glad I am to bewith you and when I cannot bewith you, how I rejoice to hearfrom you - and when either fails, how torturous and painful the interval”
Letter from Young John Allen to Mollie Houston,March 11, 1857
“So it may bewith the Pennsylvania primary on Tuesday.”
“What do you think the effect will be on consumption and the environment will bewith their population?”
“The standard deduction for a married couple is much higher than it used to bewith the elimination of the marriage penalty, so there are homeowners who don't itemize.”
“If you are compelled to return before we see you, which Ishall much regret, cannot you return on some other vessel,we are most uncomfortable on this & would like yourboat—I know you would agree with me & we will bewith you in six hours+ at City Point.”
“Gregory had friends at school and in the neighborhood; but, Vanilla Simmons says, "he always wanted to bewith Datondra.”
“There are many like us, parents who have come to bewith their children and grandchildren for a while.”
“First was when Peter, James and John could not keep awake with him for an hour while he went off to pray in Gethsemane -- here he was about to die and they couldn't even bewith him for an hour?”
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