benew
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "The youthful season's-wonted bloom Benews the beauty of each bow'r, And to the sweet-songed bird is come *Glad welcome from its darling flow'r,"
- "Thus far I have proceeded in a theme Benewed with no kind auspices:—to feel We are not what we have been, and to deem We are not what we should be, and to steel The heart against itself; and to conceal, - With a proud caution, love, or hate, or aught, — Passion or feeling, purpose, grief or zeal, — Which is the tyrant spirit of our though, Is a stern task of soul :— No matter, — it is taught."
- "We quitted it with the conviction that the grave could not be called “solitary,” while those the painter dearly loved benewed it with their tears (Art Union Journal for October)."
Etymology
From be- + new.
Word Breakdown
- Prefix: be