begun
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /bɪˈɡʌn/
- past participle of begin#English|begin
- 1807, Edward Hyde (1st earl of Clarendon.), The history of the rebellion and civil wars in England, begun in the year 1641. 3 vols. [each in 2 pt.]., page 717
- ... when he should take the sield, that city was persuaded to complete the regiment they had begun to form, under the command of a Colonel whom the King had recommended to them ; which they did raise to the number of a thousand men.
- 1807, Edward Hyde (1st earl of Clarendon.), The history of the rebellion and civil wars in England, begun in the year 1641. 3 vols. [each in 2 pt.]., page 717
- (obsolete or nonstandard) simple past tense of begin [17th-20th c.]
- 1790 (see Amazing Grace)
- When we've been there ten thousand years,
- Bright shining as the sun,
- We've no less days to sing God's praise,
- Than when we first begun.
- 1790 (see Amazing Grace)
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