Talk:bewield

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RFV discussion: September 2014–January 2015[edit]

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No Google Books matches for "to bewield". I tried the -ing and -ed forms, but only found scannos for "be wielding", "be wielded". Equinox 08:40, 6 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I found one on Books, plus 2 online which apparently show some use. It is labelled rare, and aptly so...it was not easy finding. Thing is, its listed in several dictionaries, so its likeky to keep popping up here and there. I cant seem to locate the Morrison attest anywhere on Books, though its purported...Leasnam (talk) 17:34, 6 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]
The two 2014 quotations are not from permanently recorded media and thus fail WT:ATTEST: diff, diff. --Dan Polansky (talk) 08:35, 20 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Added three more. Leasnam (talk) 17:59, 26 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]
The first sense passes RFV, the second sense fails. - -sche (discuss) 05:09, 30 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]


Note that the remaining sense now has only two citations, because I just removed two that were obviously errors for "bewildering". Therefore we need a third real cite to keep this. Equinox 20:03, 29 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I've added 2 Leasnam (talk) 21:18, 29 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]