See bewray on Wiktionary
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"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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"text": "So forth he vvent, / VVith heauy looke and lumpiſh pace, that plaine / In him bevvraid great grudge and maltalent; / His ſteed eke ſeemd t'apply his ſteps to his intent.",
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"ref": "1591, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, part III:",
"text": "Why, Warwick, canst thou speak against thy Liege, Whom thou obeyedst thirty and six years, And not bewray thy treason with a blush?",
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"text": "Should we be silent and not speak, our raiment\nAnd state of bodies would bewray what life\nWe have led since thy exile.",
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"ref": "1841, Lydia Sigourney, Pocahontas and Other Poems (New York edition), Native Scenery, page 50:",
"text": "And the lily gleam white, where the lakelets flow,\nAnd the trailing arbutus shroud its grace,\nTill fragrance bewrayed its hiding-place,",
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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": "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": "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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"ref": "1580, John Lyly, Euphues and his England, London: Gabriell Cawood, page 100:",
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"ref": "1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto IIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 61, page 461:",
"text": "So forth he vvent, / VVith heauy looke and lumpiſh pace, that plaine / In him bevvraid great grudge and maltalent; / His ſteed eke ſeemd t'apply his ſteps to his intent.",
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"text": "Should we be silent and not speak, our raiment\nAnd state of bodies would bewray what life\nWe have led since thy exile.",
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"ref": "1841, Lydia Sigourney, Pocahontas and Other Poems (New York edition), Native Scenery, page 50:",
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"ref": "1905 August 22, The Times, page 6, col. A:",
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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:",
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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, →ISBN, page 244:",
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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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