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- verb Present participle of
beray .
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Examples
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Do not venture to eat Spoon-meat so hot, that the tears stand in your eyes, or that thereby you betray your intolerable greediness, by beraying the room, besides your great discomposure for a while afterwards.
The Gentlewoman's Companion: or,%0AA Guide to the Female Sex 1675
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By'r our lady, cried Homenas, it was a plain punishment of God for the sin that you had committed in beraying that sacred book, which you ought rather to have kissed and adored; I say with an adoration of latria, or of hyperdulia at least.
Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 4 Fran��ois Rabelais 1518
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By’r our lady, cried Homenas, it was a plain punishment of God for the sin that you had committed in beraying that sacred book, which you ought rather to have kissed and adored; I say with an adoration of latria, or of hyperdulia at least.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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By’r our lady, cried Homenas, it was a plain punishment of God for the sin that you had committed in beraying that sacred book, which you ought rather to have kissed and adored; I say with an adoration of latria, or of hyperdulia at least.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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