What does beguilt mean?
Beguilt means (transitive) To make guilty; cause to sin..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · verb
(transitive) To make guilty; cause to sin..
Why should I fear, I know not; since guiltiness I know not. I will not reason what is meant hereby, because I will beguilt less of the meaning.
"Why mangelest thou a wretched man? O spare me in my tomb! Spare to beguilt thy righteous hand, Æneas! […]"
[…] for they deemed that he was long-grudging, even in lesser matters than those wherein Kalf had done to beguilt him with the king.
[…] and albeit Einar were old, yet he threw himself into this case, and beguilted the sons of Thorgrim to the full at the Thorsness-thing.
Use beguilt when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Beguilt means (transitive) To make guilty; cause to sin..
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The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Why should I fear, I know not; since guiltiness I know not. I will not reason what is meant hereby, because I will beguilt less of the meaning.
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