Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Obsolete preterit and past participle of bename.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- past participle obsolete Promised; vowed.
- past participle Archaic Named; styled.
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- verb alternative simple past and past participle of
bename
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Examples
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The master smith, benempt, as his sign intimated, John
Waverley 2004
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a shopkeeper in the same village -- his Gloriana a certain prudish old maiden lady, benempt Miss Goldie; I think I see her still, with her thin arms sheathed in scarlet gloves, and crossed like two lobsters in
Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume I (of 10) 1824
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