bedim

English

Etymology

From be- +‎ dim.

Verb

bedim (third-person singular simple present bedims, present participle bedimming, simple past and past participle bedimmed)

1. (transitive) To make dim; to obscure or darken.
   • 1843, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, book 4, chapter VII, Tha Gifted

     Read in thy New Testament and elsewhere, — if, with floods of mealymouthed inanity, with miserable froth-vortices of Cant now several centuries old, thy New Testament is not all bedimmed for thee.

   • 1905, James Hastings, Ann Wilson Hastings, Edward Hastings, The Expository times: Volume 16:

     There will be no folly, nor laughter, nor bedimming of truth [...]

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