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beward en · VERB

Etymology

From Middle English *bewarden, from Old English beweardian (“to ward, protect, keep”), equivalent to be- + ward.

Meanings

1. (rare, transitive) To guard about or completely; protect.
   • Hrothgar's Thane, and full strongly then set he a-quaking The stark wood in his hands, and in council-speech speer'd he: What men be ye then of them that have war-gear, With byrnies bewarded, who the keel high up-builded Over the Lake-street thus have come leading. 1895, William Morris, A.J. Wyatt, Beowulf:

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