Bewrayment

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The act or process of bewraying; betrayal uncountable, usually

    "From the first bewrayments of infancy to the last accidents of senility, we furnish contempt to one another by our discomfitures."

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"From the first bewrayments of infancy to the last accidents of senility, we furnish contempt to one another by our discomfitures."

Etymology

From bewray (“to betray; expose; reveal”) + -ment.

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