Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Preterit and past participle of beleave.
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- verb obsolete Simple past tense and past participle of
beleave .
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Examples
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Short of reinforcing a steam roller and running over every single inch to detonate every single mine, some mines are going to beleft.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Landmines and the Obama Administration 2009
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In fact, there might even beleft-overs to chomp on.
Gifts for our Kids on the 12th Day of Christmas/8th day of Chanukkah 2008
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And if ye will ride a pace ye shall find them fighting, and the lady was beleft with the two squires in the pavilions.
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And if ye will ride a pace ye shall find them fighting, and the lady was beleft with the two squires in the pavilions.
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Right so the two men departed and beleft him to Sir Kay, that scorned him and mocked him.
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She might have beleft us — she might have trusted her sons would be sent back!
Puck of Pook’s Hill Rudyard Kipling 1900
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So this dwarf departed, and came to Sir Persant, where he found the damosel Linet and Sir Beaumains, and there he told them all as ye have heard; and then they took their leave, but Sir Persant took an ambling hackney and conveyed them on their ways, and then beleft them to God; and so within a little while they came to that hermitage, and there they drank the wine, and ate the venison and the fowls baken.
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So this dwarf departed, and came to Sir Persant, where he found the damosel Linet and Sir Beaumains, and there he told them all as ye have heard; and then they took their leave, but Sir Persant took an ambling hackney and conveyed them on their ways, and then beleft them to God; and so within a little while they came to that hermitage, and there they drank the wine, and ate the venison and the fowls baken.
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Toothacre grumbled as she stirred her savory broth, "My old man said so and I never beleft it -- here be I at my time o 'life harborin' a
Days of the Discoverers L. Lamprey 1910
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‘I’ll lay she didn’t beleft it, then — not if she was a Whitgift.
Puck of Pook’s Hill Rudyard Kipling 1900
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