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  • verb Present participle of bewray.

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Examples

  • For they do nothing else, that will have every of their passions, as it comes to bear sway in them, to be taken for right reason, and that in their own controversies: bewraying their want of right reason by the claim they lay to it.

    Leviathan 2007

  • Nay, besides these, many societies that make a great figure in the world are reflected on in this book; which caused Rabelais to study to be dark, and even bedaub it with many loose expressions, that he might not be thought to have any other design than to droll; in a manner bewraying his book that his enemies might not bite it.

    Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

  • Nay, besides these, many societies that make a great figure in the world are reflected on in this book; which caused Rabelais to study to be dark, and even bedaub it with many loose expressions, that he might not be thought to have any other design than to droll; in a manner bewraying his book that his enemies might not bite it.

    Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

  • His uncle was the last to be called, and he 'gaiff thame enought of it, alse plainely and scharplie as he wes accustomit, namely, telling thame flattly, that they knew not quhat they did; and wer degenerat from the antiant nobilitie of Scotland, quho wer wont to give thair landis and lyffes for the fridom of the Kingdome and Gospel, and they wer bewraying and ovirturneing the same!

    Andrew Melville Famous Scots Series William Morison

  • For they do nothing else that will have every of their passions, as it comes to bear sway in them, to be taken for right reason, and that in their own controversies, bewraying their want of right reason, by the claim they lay to it.

    Chapter V. Of Reason and Science 1909

  • I would I could make you see him – the spare little man, every line and feature of the keen, clear-cut face bewraying the ascetic and the scholar.

    Love and Life Behind the Purdah 1901

  • The second speaker was as clearly a Scot who was struggling against the danger there might be of his speech bewraying him.

    The Shadow of a Crime A Cumbrian Romance Hall Caine 1892

  • "Whethersoever it be that my mind miscarrieth, bewraying simple language in such sort that the words do seem to come endlong and overthwart --"

    A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court 1889

  • "Whethersoever it be that my mind miscarrieth, bewraying simple language in such sort that the words do seem to come endlong and overthwart --"

    A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court Mark Twain 1872

  • "Whethersoever it be that my mind miscarrieth, bewraying simple language in such sort that the words do seem to come endlong and overthwart --"

    A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Part 4. Mark Twain 1872

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