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English
Etymology
From besing. Compare Dutch bezongen, German besungen.
Adjective
besung (comparative more besung, superlative most besung)
- Sung of; sung about; glorified or praised in song.
1868, William Morris, “June: The Love of Alcestis”, in The Earthly Paradise: A Poem, parts , London: F S Ellis, , →OCLC, page 490:Better to him seemed that victorious crown, / That midst the reverent silence of the town / He oft would set upon some singer's brow / Than was the conqueror's diadem, blest now / By lying priests, soon, bent and bloody, hung / Within the thorn by linnets well besung, / Who think but little of the corpse beneath, / Though ancient lands have trembled at his breath.
1897, The Virginia Spectator, University of Virginia:O fair midspring, besung so oft and oft, How can I praise thy loveliness enow?
Verb
besung
- past participle of besing