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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of bename.

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Examples

  • But a department official, who asked not to benamed, said:

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1995

  • Unfortunately, the planet has been quite too much benamed, -- benamed, indeed, out of all recognition.

    Mars 1895

  • - We departed through this gate of the Meidhan, three hours before sun-rise, and took the road by which the Hadj annually commences its laborious journey; this gate is called Bab Ullah, the Gate of God, but might, with more propriety benamed Bab-el-Maut, the Gate of Death; for scarcely a third ever returns of those whom a devout adherence to their religion, or the hope of gain impel to this journey.

    Travels in Syria and the Holy Land 1822

  • - We departed through this gate of the Meidhan, three hours before sun-rise, and took the road by which the Hadj annually commences its laborious journey; this gate is called Bab Ullah, the Gate of God, but might, with more propriety benamed Bab-el-Maut, the Gate of Death; for scarcely a third ever returns of those whom a devout adherence to their religion, or the hope of gain impel to this journey.

    Travels in Syria and the Holy Land 1822

  • - Speedy outfielder Willy Taveras has been released by the Oakland Athletics, eight days after he was acquired from Cincinnati with infielder Adam Rosales for infielder Aaron Miles and a player to benamed.

    daytondailynews.com - News 2010

  • - Speedy outfielder Willy Taveras has been released by the Oakland Athletics, eight days after he was acquired from Cincinnati with infielder Adam Rosales for infielder Aaron Miles and a player to benamed.

    daytondailynews.com - News 2010

  • I just don’t think that one can deduce any motive of any kind from a “deep background”-type interview, other than that the official doesn’t want to benamed.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Valerie & Joseph Wilson’s Suit Dismissed: 2007

  • Orissa, West Bengal, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan, "said an SKS spokesperson, who did not wish to benamed ..

    Daily News & Analysis 2010

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