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English
Etymology
be- + sweeten
Pronunciation
Verb
besweeten (third-person singular simple present besweetens, present participle besweetening, simple past and past participle besweetened or (obsolete) besweetned)
- (literary, rare) Sublimely sweeten.
- 1648, Robert Herrick, Hesperides (1969 reprint, Scolar Press facsimiles), “Oberon’s Feast”, lines 15–17 (pages 136–137)
- A pure ſeed-Pearle of Infant dew, // Brought and beſweetned in a blew // And pregnant violet;
References
- “besweeten” listed as a derivation of “Be- prefix”, treated on pages 719–723 of volume I (A–B) of A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles
Be- prefix: — OE. be-, weak or stressless form of the prep. and adv. bí (biᵹ), By. 2. Forming intensive verbs, with sense of ‘thoroughly (extension of 1), soundly, much, conspicuously, to excess, ridiculously.’ besweeten 1648 Herrick Hesp. I. 166 Dew..*besweetned in a..violet.