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bemean

[ bih-meen ]

verb (used with object)

Archaic.
bemeaned, bemeaning.
  1. to make mean; demean; debase (usually used reflexively).


bemean

/ ɪˈː /

verb

  1. a less common word for demean 1
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Origin of bemean1

First recorded in 1645–55; be- + mean 2
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Gets you to be his bride, fair maid, And him I'll no bemean;30 But when I take my words again, Whom call ye Hazelgreen?

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Everything is so foul already that surely it is not worth while to bemean ourselves any further by attempting to gloss over the filth!”

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Surely we need no further bemean and befoul ourselves!

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“Which you’d best fetch this gentleman a light, Master Antony,” said cook; “for I ain’t going to bemean myself.”

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She'll hab to walk and talk, and bofe bemean and brag!

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