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bechide en · VERB

Etymology

From Middle English bechiden, equivalent to be- (“on; about; all over”) + chide.

Meanings

1. (archaic, transitive) to chide or scold completely; reprimand thoroughly
   • Should I bechide "It's God's own way Permitting night to follow day?" 1920, Ira Edmund Stanford, There is No Night and Other Verse:
   • Exeunting myself to those higher latitudes would, I felt, vault to the fore my more shining aspects, and soon enough (ran my hopes), the Easts, heartily discussing my prospects in some room of constant gleam, would decide, thereunto, to promote me, to the house, and instantly my suffering, which had gauged, gnarred, and vexed, bechiding with sooth my loftish sensitivities, would be converted, and, gladsome shouting amidway, I would obtain that life which, more tender […] 2017, George Saunders, Lincoln in the Bardo:

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