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beheart

beheart verb: to enamour; ravish.

Verb

beheart (third-person singular simple present behearts, present participle behearting, simple past and past participle behearted)

  1. (transitive) To enamour; ravish.
    • Thou hast ravished my heart' (or thou hast behearted me, as the Hebrew runs), 'my sister, my spouse ; thou hast ravished my heart with one of thine eyes' […]1866, Thomas Brooks, Alexander Balloch Grosart, The complete works of Thomas Brooks
    • Nay, Christ is so taken with it that his heart is ravished and lost with it; he is behearted with it, […]1868, George Swinnock, Works

Forms of beheart

third-person singular presentbehearts
present participlebehearting
past participlebehearted
pastbehearted

Origin of beheart

From be- + heart.

Questions about beheart

What does beheart mean?
Beheart means to enamour; ravish.
What part of speech is beheart?
Beheart is a verb.
What is the past tense of beheart?
The past tense of beheart is behearted.

Words near beheart in the dictionary

  1. behear
  2. beheard
  3. behearing
  4. behearken
  5. behears
  6. beheart
  7. behedge
  8. behedged
  9. behedges
  10. behedging
  11. Beheira

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