bedim
Verb
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Verb
bedim (bedims, present participle bedimming; past and past participle bedimmed)
- (transitive) To make dim; to obscure or darken.
- circa 1611, William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act V, Scene 1,
- […] by whose aid,
- Weak masters though ye be, I have bedimm’d
- The noontide sun […]
- 1843, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, Book 4, Chapter VII, “The Gifted,”
- Read in thy New Testament and elsewhere, — if, with floods of mealymouthed inanity, with miserable froth-vortices of Cant now several centuries old, thy New Testament is not all bedimmed for thee.
- 1905, James Hastings, Ann Wilson Hastings, Edward Hastings, The Expository times: Volume 16:
- There will be no folly, nor laughter, nor bedimming of truth [...]
- circa 1611, William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act V, Scene 1,
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