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beliven

UK/bɪˈlɪvən/US/bəˈlɪvən/

beliven is the past participle of belive.

Meaning of belive

Verb

belive (third-person singular simple present belives, present participle beliving, simple past belove, past participle beliven)

  1. (dialectal, intransitive, otherwise obsolete) To remain, stay.
    • … God helpe me so, the best is thus to done. “Rise, let us speake of lustie life in Troy That we have lad, and forth the time drive, And eke of time coming us rejoy, That bringen shall our blisse now to blive, …"1843 (original date: 1475), Geoffrey Chaucer, Thomas Tyrwhitt, The Poetical Works of Geoffrey Chaucer - Page 321

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Origin of beliven

From Middle English beliven, from Old English belifen, past participle of belīfan (“to remain”).

Words that rhyme with beliven

Questions about beliven

What is beliven the past participle of?
Beliven is the past participle of belive.
How do you pronounce beliven?
Beliven is pronounced /bɪˈlɪvən/ (UK).

Words near beliven in the dictionary

  1. Belitung
  2. belivable
  3. belive
  4. Beliveau
  5. Beliveaus
  6. beliven
  7. belives
  8. beliving
  9. Belizaire
  10. Belizaires
  11. Belize

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