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"ref": "1580, John Lyly, Euphues and his England, London: Gabriell Cawood, page 100",
"text": "But to put you out of doubt that my wits were not all this while a wol-gathering, I was debating with my selfe whether in loue, it wer better to be constant, bewraying all the counsayles, or secret, being readye euery houre to flinch:",
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"(transitive) To reveal, divulge, or make (something) known; disclose.",
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"text": "1846, Introduction to Letter 40 in Henry Ellis (editor), Original Letters, Illustrative of English History, Third Series, Volume I, London: Richard Bentley, p. 100,\nWhile this busy search was diligently applied and put in execution, Humphrey Banaster (were it more for fear of loss of life and goods, or attracted and provoked by the avaricious desire of the thousand pounds) he bewrayed his guest and master to John Mitton, then Sheriff of Shropshire, …"
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"ref": "1890 June 16, The Times, page 8, col. A",
"text": "I fear that if I was to attempt to detain you at length my speech would bewray me, and you would discover I was not that master of professional allusions which you might expect me to be.",
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"ref": "1892, John Greenleaf Whittier, “The Pennsylvania Pilgrim”, in The Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier […], volumes I (Narrative and Legendary Poems), Boston, Mass., New York, N.Y.: Houghton Mifflin and Company […], →OCLC, page 328",
"text": "One Scripture rule, at least, was unforgot; / He hid the outcast, and bewrayed him not; […]",
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"ref": "1581, John Lyly, Campaspe: Played Beefore the Queenes Maiestie on Twelfe Day at Night",
"text": "They place affection by times, by pollicy, by appoyntment, if they frowne, who dares call them vnconstant, if bewray secrets, who will tearme them vntrue, if fall to other loues, who trembles not, if he call them vnfaithfull.",
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"ref": "1731, The Testament of the Twelve Patriarchs, the Sons of Jacob, page 74",
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"ref": "1927, Plutarch (Philemon Holland), Plutarch's Moralia - Part 1, page 244",
"text": "For to discover this matter the better, he saith consequently: That the nature of virtuous men and those who have noble bringing up, is directly opposite unto that of long-tongued persons; and joining the reasons by which a man ought not to bewray his secret, together with those evils and inconveniences which curiosity and much babble do bring, and confirming all by fine similitudes and notable examples: ....",
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"ref": "2013, Miguel Asin Palacios, Islam and the Divine Comedy, page 75",
"text": "A comparison with the Divine Comedy of all these versions combined bewrays many points of resemblance, and even of absolute coincidence, in the general architecture and ethical structure of hell and paradise; in the description of the tortures and rewards; […]",
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},
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"To reveal, divulge, or make (something) known; disclose.",
"To reveal or disclose and show the presence or true character of, especially if unintentionally or incidentally, or else if perfidiously, prejudicially, or to one's discredit."
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"(transitive) To reveal, divulge, or make (something) known; disclose.",
"(transitive) To reveal or disclose and show the presence or true character of, especially if unintentionally or incidentally, or else if perfidiously, prejudicially, or to one's discredit."
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"text": "1846, Introduction to Letter 40 in Henry Ellis (editor), Original Letters, Illustrative of English History, Third Series, Volume I, London: Richard Bentley, p. 100,\nWhile this busy search was diligently applied and put in execution, Humphrey Banaster (were it more for fear of loss of life and goods, or attracted and provoked by the avaricious desire of the thousand pounds) he bewrayed his guest and master to John Mitton, then Sheriff of Shropshire, …"
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"ref": "1890 June 16, The Times, page 8, col. A",
"text": "I fear that if I was to attempt to detain you at length my speech would bewray me, and you would discover I was not that master of professional allusions which you might expect me to be.",
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"ref": "1892, John Greenleaf Whittier, “The Pennsylvania Pilgrim”, in The Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier […], volumes I (Narrative and Legendary Poems), Boston, Mass., New York, N.Y.: Houghton Mifflin and Company […], →OCLC, page 328",
"text": "One Scripture rule, at least, was unforgot; / He hid the outcast, and bewrayed him not; […]",
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"ref": "1581, John Lyly, Campaspe: Played Beefore the Queenes Maiestie on Twelfe Day at Night",
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"ref": "1927, Plutarch (Philemon Holland), Plutarch's Moralia - Part 1, page 244",
"text": "For to discover this matter the better, he saith consequently: That the nature of virtuous men and those who have noble bringing up, is directly opposite unto that of long-tongued persons; and joining the reasons by which a man ought not to bewray his secret, together with those evils and inconveniences which curiosity and much babble do bring, and confirming all by fine similitudes and notable examples: ....",
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"ref": "2013, Miguel Asin Palacios, Islam and the Divine Comedy, page 75",
"text": "A comparison with the Divine Comedy of all these versions combined bewrays many points of resemblance, and even of absolute coincidence, in the general architecture and ethical structure of hell and paradise; in the description of the tortures and rewards; […]",
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