beselve
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "One can say "That individual is angry," or "Mr. X is angry," but never "The self is angry." Even though, to be sure, anger involves having a self; it pertains to X as "beselved." We agree with common usage."
- "The mouth is always available for service; the breast is not. So the anticipation is breastdirected. The beselved body in fact lives more outside its literal Habit."
- "Two new words are needed, “enworlded” and “beselved.” To be enworlded is to be beselved. To be beside yourself is to be fully conscious."
- "In Deleuzian terms, the self—beselved body—is a contour map on which are charted the exhilarating lines of desire."
Etymology
From be- + selve.
Word Breakdown
- Prefix: be
Usage
Inflected Forms
beselves (present, singular)
beselving (participle, present)
beselved (participle, past)
beselved (past)