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  • verb Present participle of betide.

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Examples

  • (Curse on his ill-betiding croak!) Bodes me no good.

    Quotations 1919

  • (Curse on his ill-betiding croak!) Bodes me no good.

    Quotations 1919

  • (Curse on his ill-betiding croak!) Bodes me no good.

    Quotations 1919

  • Then spake the Carline: "I must now look along the ways of sleep and see what is betiding."

    The Sundering Flood William Morris 1865

  • Face-of-god wotted not what was betiding there, but he deemed that they were now ware of the onfall of Folk-might and Hall-face and the men of Burgdale, for their faces were all turned to where that was to be looked for.

    The Roots of the Mountains; Wherein Is Told Somewhat of the Lives of the Men of Burgdale William Morris 1865

  • The Caliph marvelled at their speech and said, "This is a proof of the house-master's liberality: there is no help but that we go in to him and note his generosity, and this shall be a means of favour betiding him from us."

    Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

  • Good local and state governance, and no woes betiding Democrats in general = no hammer to beat Bush and GOP in '08.

    Right Wing Nation 2008

  • Bad local and state governance, and the woes betiding Democrats in general = handy hammer to beat Bush and GOP in '06.

    Right Wing Nation 2008

  • Cover'd with fears, yet tho with linews ftirunk And pithlefs limbs now betiding o'er his ftafT,

    Tragedies: By Hugh Downman, M.D. Hugh Downman 1792

  • (sect. 5), intoxicating the flesh with a persuasion that it hath goods laid up for the days of eternity; a notion comfortable, and betiding peace to the flesh (sect. 15), in administering unto it certain hope that it shall, however, escape the wrath and vengeance which is to come, yea, though it disporteth itself in all manner of looseness and licentiousness in the meantime.

    The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed 1616-1683 1966

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