bewares

bewares

1. (obsolete) Third-person singular simple present indicative form of beware
   • 1818, Lucy Aikin, Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth, page 406

     [...] a fool too late bewares when all the peril is past.

   • 1859, Robert South, Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions, page 71

     Repentance bewails those sins that a man has committed, and bewares of those which as yet he has not; [...]

   • 1918, Horace M. Kallen (trans.), Hans Gross, Criminal Psychology, page 86

     Then, if one bewares of voluntary mistakes, of exaggeration and unfounded assertion, if one builds only upon actual and carefully observed facts, an important and well-grounded discipline must ensue.

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