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English
Etymology
From Middle English *bewarden, from Old English beweardian (“to ward, protect, keep”), equivalent to be- + ward.
Pronunciation
Verb
beward (third-person singular simple present bewards, present participle bewarding, simple past and past participle bewarded)
- (transitive, rare) To guard about or completely; protect.
1895, William Morris, A.J. Wyatt, Beowulf:Hrothgar's Thane, and full strongly then set he a-quaking The stark wood in his hands, and in council-speech speer'd he: What men be ye then of them that have war-gear, With byrnies bewarded, who the keel high up-builded Over the Lake-street thus have come leading.
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