benettle
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To nettle:
Example Sentences
- "As they retraced their benettled footsteps, Mr Truscott's silent rage was such as to obscure even […]"
- "Next to the body let no one gird (or, belt) herself with any kind of belt, except by a confessor's permission, or [let anyone] wear any iron, or haircloth, or hedgehog's skins, or beat herself with them, or with a leaded scourge (i.e., a lead-tipped scourge), with holly or with briars, or bloody herself without [her] confessor's permission, in no place benettle herself (i.e., whip herself with nettles), or beat [herself] in front, or cut any slashes, or take at one time [any bodily] punishments too severe in order to quench temptations."
- "Where men of ordinary skill, May have the fortune, if they will, To keep in circumstances middling By nothing in the world but piddling ; Hence, with their fancies thus benettled, The future course of life is settled :"
- "It seems for this you felt yourself benettled ; You grieve that all as bad has not been settled."
- "Sir Geore ^([sic]) benettles the Grand Commander of Iowa for saying that "as Templars we are not judged by any standard or creed " And behold we humbly ask, "Is not Grand Commander correct?"
Etymology
From be- + nettle.
Word Breakdown
- Prefix: be