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▪ I. bewray, v. arch.|bɪˈreɪ|
Forms: 4 by-, bewreie(n, bywryghen, biwray, 4–5 bi-, by-, bewrey(e, 4–6 by-, bewrie, -ye, 4–7 bewraie, -ye, 6– bewray.
[ME. bewreien, f. be- + wreien: see wray. Probably more or less of a conscious archaism since the 17th c.; the ordinary modern equivalent is expose.]
Always trans.
†1. To accuse, malign, speak evil of. Obs.
c1314Guy Warw. (A.) 3379 Ac biwrayed þou war to me, & þerfore haue he maugre..Þat ouȝt sigge bot gode of þe. c1400Rom. Rose 3879 Wikkid-Tunge hath custome ay, Yonge folkis to bewreye.
†2. To expose (a person), by divulging his secrets, or telling something that one knows to his discredit or harm. Hence passing into, To expose or reveal (the unknown doer of an act.) Obs. or arch.
c1300K. Alis. 4116 That ye no schal me bywryghen Of that Y wol to yow sayn. c1330Arth. & Merl. 1336 Alle the sothe sche gan hem say, And bad hem nought hir biwray. c1440Promp. Parv. 34 Bewrethyn, or wreyyn [1499 bewreyen], prodo, recelo, revelo. 1481Caxton Reynard (Arb.) 36 They were of my next kynne · whom gladly I wold not bewraye. 1510Love Bonavent. Mirr. xiv. E iv b, Say nat this now and bewrye me nat. 1587Fleming Cont. Holinshed III. 1321/2 That who so would bewraie the dooers thereof, should haue fortie crownes for their labour. 1603Knolles Hist. Turks (1621) 7 For feare to be enforced by torments to bewray his confederates.
†b. To expose (a deception). Obs.
1548Udall, etc., Erasm. Par. Pref. 11 In bewraiyng the iugleyng sleightes. a1601Nowell in Strype Ann. Ref. I. i. xxxix. 451 Finding therein certain notable untruths..he did bewray them to the auditors.
3. To divulge or reveal (secrets) prejudicially.
c1386Chaucer 2nd Nun's T. 147 A conseil..Which that night fayn I wolde vn to yow seye So that ye swere ye shul it nat biwreye. c1440Gesta Rom. 182 (2nd vers.), Happely..thou woldest be-wreye my counsaile. 1525Ld. Berners Froiss. II. cxxi. [cxvii.] 345 None shulde issue out to bewray their entreprice. 1599Pass. Pilgr. 352 Yet will she blush..To hear her secrets so bewray'd. 1600Dekker Fortun. 109 The talke of kings none dare bewray. 1819Scott Ivanhoe xxxiv, Villain!..thou wouldst not bewray our counsel?
†4. Less specifically: To reveal, divulge, disclose, declare, make known, show. Obs.
c1386Chaucer Frankl. T. 226 Ne dorste he nat to hire his wo biwreye. 1430Lydg. Chron. Troy. i. ii, His entent there can no man bewreye. c1500Dunbar Tua mariit Wem. 41 Bewrie, said the Wedo, ȝe weddit wemen ȝing Quhat mirth ȝe fand in maryage. 1576Thynne Ld. Burghley's Crest 218 The horn'd Diana chaste, is silver brighte Whiche waninge moone dothe unto us bewraye. 1588Shakes. Tit. A. ii. iv. 3 Write downe thy mind, bewray thy meaning so. 1611Bible Prov. xxix. 24 Hee heareth cursing, and bewrayeth it not.
†5. To reveal the presence of, or expose (a fugitive) to his enemies, or to justice; to betray. Obs.
1535Coverdale Isa. xvi. 3 Bewraye [Wyclif, betraȝe; 1611 bewray] not them that are fled. 1548Hall Chron. in Ellis Orig. Lett. iii. I. 100 He..bewrayed his guest and master to John Milton then sherif of Shropshire. 1628Hobbes Thucyd. (1822) 65 He was bewrayed unto them.
6. To reveal, expose, discover (unintentionally, and usually what it is intended to conceal); = betray 6.
a. the existence or presence of (something).
1579Lyly Euphues (1636) D vj, Thy hot words bewray thy heauy wrath. 1611Bible Prov. xxvii. 16 The ointment of his right hand which bewrayeth it selfe. 1644Bulwer Chirol. 2 The blushes of Aurora bewray the early approach of the bright Emperour of the day. 1738Wesley Psalms xxxvi. 1 My heart to every Vice inclin'd, The Sinner's closest Sin bewrays. a1849H. Coleridge Ess. & Marg. (1851) II. 168 A smoke and a crackling that bewrayed the ligneous and carbonaceous quality of the fuel. 1863Mrs. C. Clarke Shaks. Char. xii. 311 The mental bias in every writer will casually bewray itself.
b. the true character of.
1535Coverdale Matt. xxvi. 73 Thy speach bewrayeth the. 1585Abp. Sandys Serm. (1841) 395 A mans speech and gesture will bewray his thoughts. 1624Capt. Smith Virginia iii. ix. 79 The extremity of his feare bewrayed his intent. 1645Milton Colast. Wks. (1851) 345 His very first page notoriously bewraies him an illiterat and arrogant presumer. 1867Freeman Norm. Conq. I. App. (1876) 610 A touchstone to bewray the half-learned.
c. a fact (expressed by a clause).
1607Shakes. Cor. v. iii. 95 Our raiment And state of bodies would bewray what life We haue led since thy exile. 1649R. Hodges Plain Direct. 27 The childe did bewray, that hee would beray himself. 1692Washington tr. Milton's Def. Pop. x, Your very speech bewrays you to be a right Balaam.
†7. To exhibit incidentally; = betray 7. Obs.
1575Laneham's Let. (1871) 56 Nothing more bewraying hiz age then hiz wit. 1600Tourneur Transf. Metam. To Rdr. 14 This Pluto-visag'd world hell doth bewray. a1631Donne Poems (1650) 106 O foole, which yesterday Might'st have read more than all thy books bewray. 1763Kames Elem. Crit. II. xii. 43 He never once bewrays a smile.
▪ II. bewray
erroneous form of beray. |