beteem

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beteem

(bɪˈtiːm)
vb (tr)
obsolete to accord or allow
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139-40)--but the prince's emphasis is less on the difference in physical appearance than on old Hamlet's protectiveness of his wife: "so loving to my mother / That he might not beteem the winds of heaven / Visit her face too roughly!" (I.ii.
"Have at the masters"?: literary allusions in Elizabeth Gaskell's Mary Barton
"He would not beteem the winds of heaven visit her face too roughly," says Hamlet of his late father's love for his mother.
The unity of love: reflections on the first encyclical of Pope Benedict XVI
When the attentive King Hamlet, who "would not beteem the winds of heaven / Visit her [Gertrude's] face too roughly" (1.2.141-42) dies, Hamlet regards the world as "an unweeded garden, / That grows to seed; things rank and gross in nature / Possess it merely" (1.2.135-37).
Trapping the Fox You Are(n't) with a Riddle: The Autobiographical Crisis of Stephen Dedalus in Ulysses
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