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Webster 1913 Edition


Bewhore

Be-whore′

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Verb.
T.
1.
To corrupt with regard to chastity; to make a whore of.
J. Fletcher.
2.
To pronounce or characterize as a whore.
Shak.

Definition 2024


bewhore

bewhore

English

Verb

bewhore (third-person singular simple present bewhores, present participle bewhoring, simple past and past participle bewhored)

  1. (transitive) To make a whore of; prostitute; treat as a whore.
    • 1975, Eric Rothstein, Systems of order and inquiry in later eighteenth-century fiction:
      We move to higher social realms in the next chapter, in which Harrison refuses to bewhore his conscience to a peer by supporting Colonel Trompington for parliament, this being the price for favor towards Booth.
    • 2004, Ellen Kushner, Thomas the Rhymer:
      They've asked her the name of him that bewhored her, but she will not speak.
  2. (transitive, archaic) To call or pronounce a whore.