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bewray
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tags: [obsolete]
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Definition:1. to reveal; to divulge2. to rat out; to betray
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Uses:
Now whereas you seem to love my nature, and loath my nurture, you bewray your own weakness, in thinking that nature may anyways be altered by education,
John Lyly. Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit (1578)
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never durst laugh too open by reason of a strange humour which he would not bewray and also for that he rued for her that bare whoso she might be or wheresoever. James Joyce. Ulysses.
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