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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of bewray.

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Examples

  • Who can deny the charge, when so bewrayed are they

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • But all with one accord say that they bewrayed him in their troth with him, and fell on him as he lay unarrayed and unawares.

    The Story of the Volsungs 2008

  • And if there were nothing else that bewrayed their madness, yet that very arrogating such inspiration to themselves is argument enough.

    Leviathan 2007

  • I hope that my faithful advice will not be bewrayed to my prejudice?

    Kenilworth 2004

  • “Counsel was never bewrayed by me,” said De Bracy, haughtily, “nor must the name of villain be coupled with mine!”

    Ivanhoe 2004

  • I do not know what polite offers from him had already brought out the thanks in which our speech bewrayed us; but at our outlandish accents they at once became easier.

    Familiar Spanish Travels 2004

  • By them I suppose, he, was bewrayed of his purpose as touching his message, but yet still we had faire words of the Shepheard aforesayd, and others.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • ELLIS HIXOM, with charge to meet him at such a river though the Master knew well the Captain's toothpike: yet by reason of his admonition and caveat [warning] given him at parting, he (though he bewrayed no sign of distrusting the Cimaroon) yet stood as amazed, lest something had befallen our Captain otherwise than well.

    Sir Francis Drake Revived Philip [Editor] Nichols

  • For the Spaniards which you had with you here, the last year, have bewrayed this place, and taken away all that you left here.

    Sir Francis Drake Revived Philip [Editor] Nichols

  • Dwarfs was bewrayed; but these presently after brake down and laid waste their houses, and fled deeper away into their mountain.

    Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 345, July, 1844 Various

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