Bewraying
noun, verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 The act or process of divulging or revealing information
"As for the bewraying, or rather betraying, of my friends, since I dare swear for their fidelity to her majesty and crown, and am assured that such my bewraying could in no sort do my prince or country service, but give occasion and opportunity to their enemies, I hope in all humanity I may be pardoned, and wish not to live with such a spot of infamy, more intolerable far than death itself."
- 1 present participle and gerund of bewray form-of, gerund, participle, present
Example
More examples"As for the bewraying, or rather betraying, of my friends, since I dare swear for their fidelity to her majesty and crown, and am assured that such my bewraying could in no sort do my prince or country service, but give occasion and opportunity to their enemies, I hope in all humanity I may be pardoned, and wish not to live with such a spot of infamy, more intolerable far than death itself."
Etymology
From Middle English bewreying, biwreying, equivalent to bewray + -ing.
From bewray + -ing.
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