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Definition of 'bewares'

English

Verb

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  • (obsolete) (beware)
  • * 1818 , Lucy Aikin, Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth , page 406
  • [...] a fool too late bewares when all the peril is past.
  • * 1859 , Robert South, Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions , page 71
  • Repentance bewails those sins that a man has committed, and bewares of those which as yet he has not; [...]
  • * 1918 , Horace M. Kallen (trans.), Hans Gross, Criminal Psychology , page 86
  • Then, if one bewares of voluntary mistakes, of exaggeration and unfounded assertion, if one builds only upon actual and carefully observed facts, an important and well-grounded discipline must ensue.