Besully
verb
verb ·Uncommon ·Advanced level
Definitions
Verb
- 1 To make sullied or soiled; defile. transitive
"Let us avoid them as we would those emissaries of Satan whose glory is to wither piety, to blot out godliness from the ... who would extinguish the “Light of the Week”—who would besully the “Pearl of Days”—[…]"
Example
More examples"Let us avoid them as we would those emissaries of Satan whose glory is to wither piety, to blot out godliness from the ... who would extinguish the “Light of the Week”—who would besully the “Pearl of Days”—[…]"
Etymology
From Middle English bisulien, from Old English besylian (“to soil, stain”), equivalent to be- + sully.
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