bruit
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
bruit
- (archaic) Rumour; talk; hearsay.
- 1590, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part III, Act IV, Scene 7
- Brother, we will proclaim you out of hand: / The bruit thereof will bring you many friends.
- 1607, William Shakespeare, The Life of Timon of Athens
- But yet I love my country, and am not / One that rejoices in the common wreck, / As common bruit doth put it.
- 1590, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part III, Act IV, Scene 7
- (medicine) An abnormal sound heard on auscultation. (French pronunciation)
- (obsolete) A noise.
- 1827, Thomas Hood, "The Plea of the Midsummer Fairies" [https://books.google.com/books?id=5skjAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA6&dq=%22When+some+fresh+bruit+Startled+me+all+aheap!+and+soon+I+saw+The+horridest+shape+that+ever+raised+my+awe.%22&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjFwuPeiZXnAhUpnOAKHdizB4AQ6AEwC3oECBIQAg#v=onepage&q=%22When%20some%20fresh%20bruit%20Startled%20me%20all%20aheap!%20and%20soon%20I%20saw%20The%20horridest%20shape%20that%20ever%20raised%20my%20awe.%22&f=false]
- […] When some fresh bruit
Startled me all aheap! — and soon I saw
The horridest shape that ever raised my awe.
- […] When some fresh bruit
- 1827, Thomas Hood, "The Plea of the Midsummer Fairies" [https://books.google.com/books?id=5skjAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA6&dq=%22When+some+fresh+bruit+Startled+me+all+aheap!+and+soon+I+saw+The+horridest+shape+that+ever+raised+my+awe.%22&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjFwuPeiZXnAhUpnOAKHdizB4AQ6AEwC3oECBIQAg#v=onepage&q=%22When%20some%20fresh%20bruit%20Startled%20me%20all%20aheap!%20and%20soon%20I%20saw%20The%20horridest%20shape%20that%20ever%20raised%20my%20awe.%22&f=false]
- Russian: молва́
bruit (bruits, present participle bruiting; past and past participle bruited)
- (US, archaic British) To spread, promulgate or disseminate a rumour, news etc.
- 1567, Arthur Golding: Ovid's Metamorphoses; Bk. 2; lines 418
- And if it be to be believed, as bruited is by fame,
A day did pass without the Sun.
- And if it be to be believed, as bruited is by fame,
- circa 1600 William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act I, Scene 2, lines 127–128,
- And the King's rouse the heaven shall bruit again,
- Re-speaking earthly thunder.
- 1567, Arthur Golding: Ovid's Metamorphoses; Bk. 2; lines 418
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