bedight
/bɪˈdaɪt/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Then she gave unto him a dress so new, With gold and pearls bedight; Every seam on the dress it was With precious stones all bright."
- "In half a minute Mrs Cratchit entered – flushed, but smiling proudly – with the pudding, like a speckled cannon-ball, so hard and firm, blazing in half of half-a-quartern of ignited brandy, and bedight with Christmas holly stuck into the top."
- "She, seated between her aunt and Mr. Civil (now retired from the ministry on a pension), listening to the wind (for it was autumn) howling vengefully round the porch; while this envied, bedight girl eating her manifold chocolate gifts, would merrily go forth to further triumphs, laughing at the clown, so philosophically funny, despite the cruel ringmaster's whip cuts."
- "[…] [F]rom every Southern hill, / And mount and stream and vale bedight […]"
- "Who comes through Michan’s land, bedight in sable armour? O’Bloom, the son of Rory: it is he."
- "There rose a fabled horde of mounted lancers and archers bearing shields bedight with bits of broken mirrorglass that cast a thousand unpieced suns against the eyes of their enemies."
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
Usage
Inflected Forms
bedights (present, singular)
bedighting (participle, present)
bedighted (participle, past)
bedighted (past)
more bedight (comparative)
most bedight (superlative)