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be gone en · INTJ

Meanings

  1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of begone.
    alt of begone
    • While you’ll find a giddy variety of sounds on TikTok – ranging from the classic ('Paint It Black' by the Rolling Stones is currently trending) to the extremely memey (‘Be Gone Thot’ by an alien influencer called Lil Mayo) – the most consistently trending sounds tend to err towards the childlike. 2019 October 31, Emma Madden, “TikTok has broken rap music”, in Wired UK, →ISSN:
    • 'Be gone tartlets! Your feminine charms hold no power over me,' he said, tears of laughter falling down his face to drip from his pointed little chin. 'You should know I prefer quiche to tarts.' 2011, A. K. Wrox, Arrabella Candellarbra & The Questy Thing to End All Questy Things, Clan Destine Press, →ISBN:
    • Sir Fran. But me no Buts Be gone, Sir: Dare to ask me for Money agen Refuse Forty Thousand Pound! Out of my Doors, I say, without reply. 1709, Susanna Centlivre, The Busie Body:
    • Be gone, thou impudent VVretch, to Hell, thy proper Place: thou art a Deſpiſer of my glorious Majeſty, and your Frame of Spirit ſavours of Blaſphemy. 1750, Joseph Bellamy, “Discourse I. Shewing the Nature of the Divine Law, and wherein Consists a Real Conformity to It.”, in True Religion Delineated; or, Experimental Religion, […], Boston, Mass.: […] S. Kneeland, […], →OCLC, section II (Shewing from what Motives True Love to God Takes Its Rise), pages 53–54:
    • Melpomene, be gone; / Hag of my Fancy, let me now alone: / Night-mare my ſoul no more; Go take thy flight / Where Traytors Ghoſts keep an eternal night; […] 1660 April 23, a Rural Pen [pseudonym; Robert Wild], Iter Boreale. Attempting Somthing upon the Successful and Matchless March of the Lord General George Monck, from Scotland, to London, the Last Winter, &c., London: […], page 3:
    • Fairies be gone, and be alwaies away. c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i], page 157, column 1:
    • Be gone [translating exī], whether born today or earlier, whether created today or earlier: with this formula I call out, lead out, and sing out from the limbs and marrow of this person here this disease, plague, pain, polyp, redness, goiters, tonsils, inflammation, growths, tumor, and swelling. 1996, Anthony Corbeill, Controlling Laughter: Political Humor in the Late Roman Republic, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, →ISBN, pages 70–71; translating Marcellus Empiricus, De medicamentis, 415 CE:
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see be, gone.
    • When your rooster crows at the break o' dawn Look out your windo' and I'll be gone You're the reason I'm a travelin' on But don't think twice, it's all right. 1962, Bob Dylan, Don't Think Twice, It's All Right:

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