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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
beshrew .
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Examples
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The first alternative is hard, but the second too grievous for impaired powers of endurance; I must therefore find what expression I may, and tell you how my life has been beshrewed ever since, a boy of twelve, I first incurred the obloquy of being shy.
Apologia Diffidentis 1905
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And she beshrewed herself for so unkindly judging of his unkindness.
Othello 1878
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And she beshrewed herself for so unkindly judging of his unkindness.
Tales from Shakespeare Mary Lamb 1805
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And she beshrewed herself for so unkindly judging of his unkindness.
Tales from Shakespeare Mary Lamb 1805
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He certainly entertained no hope that you would finally yield; and his position could not have been an agreeable one, from any point of view; for whether he was regarded as the monster he was, or only as a sadly beshrewed husband, he must have felt himself the subject of unpleasant remark. "
The New Penelope and Other Stories and Poems Frances Fuller Victor 1864
bilby commented on the word beshrewed
"Nor is it every apple I desire,
Nor that which pleases every palate best;
'T is not the lasting Deuxan I require,
Nor yet the red-cheeked Greening I request,
Nor that which first beshrewed the name of wife,
Nor that whose beauty caused the golden strife:
No, no! bring me an apple from the tree of life."
- traditional (England).
December 14, 2007