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bepower

bepower verb: to give power to; imbue with power.

Verb

bepower (third-person singular simple present bepowers, present participle bepowering, simple past and past participle bepowered)

  1. (transitive) To give power to; imbue with power.
    • This demand, the reddendum, pervasively bepowers all human cognition.1996, Martin Heidegger, The Principle of Reason
    • However, Heidegger (28) insists that what really "bepowers" this principle emerges in its precise formulation as the principium reddendae rationis; that is, something is only an object for a rational subject if we can offer ourselves reasons for it.2000, Foundation for Education, Science, and Technology (South Africa). Bureau for Scientific Publications, Philosophical Society of Southern Africa, South African journal of philosophy

Forms of bepower

third-person singular presentbepowers
present participlebepowering
past participlebepowered
pastbepowered

Origin of bepower

From be- + power.

Questions about bepower

What does bepower mean?
Bepower means to give power to; imbue with power.
What part of speech is bepower?
Bepower is a verb.
What is the past tense of bepower?
The past tense of bepower is bepowered.

Words near bepower in the dictionary

  1. bepotastine
  2. bepowder
  3. bepowdered
  4. bepowdering
  5. bepowders
  6. bepower
  7. bepowered
  8. bepowering
  9. bepowers
  10. Beppu
  11. bepraise

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