How do you pronounce beswathe?

The recorded pronunciation is /bɪˈsweɪð/.

Where does beswathe come from?

It is traced to Middle English.

/bɪˈsweɪð/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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"A truth beswathed by the cover of lies."
"The night beswathed the sloomy holt with a pall of darkness."
"He had beswathed his bleeding wound with a tattered piece of cloth."
"For a swollen soreː at starting one shall cure with onlayings, that is, external applications, and salves; the salve shall be of barley groats sodden in ley, and cluvers sharn wrought with honey, and then let one lay the salve on a hot cloth, or on a skin, or on paper, beswathe with that, the swelling soon becometh nesh and bursteth within."

From Middle English *beswathen (“to becover”), from Old English swaþian (“to cover”), equivalent to be- + swathe (“to becover”).

beswathes (present, singular) beswathing (participle, present) beswathed (participle, past) beswathed (past)

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