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verb (bethinks, bethinking, bethought)
- (archaic) To think of something or somebody again; to remember, to consider, or to reflect upon.
- 1928: w:Virginia Woolf, Virginia Woolf, w:Orlando:_A_Biography, Orlando
- : He bethought him with pride that he had always been called a scholar, and sneered at for his love of solitude and books.
Etymology: Old English biíencan, biíenÄan, from Germanic, corresponding to be- + think. Cognate with Dutch bedenken, German bedenken.
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