betime
Pronunciations
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/bɪˈtaɪm/
Verb
To occur; betide.
Usage- Archaic
- Intransitive
- Synonyms
- Examples
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Away, away, no time ſhalbe omitted, / That will be time and may by vs be fitted.
Adverb
Betimes.
Usage- not-comparable
- Examples
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Send succours (lords), and stop the rage betime, Before the wound do grow uncurable; For being green, there is great hope of help."
More examples (1)
Her feature all as fresh aboue, As is the grasse that grows by Doue, as lyth as lasse of Kent: Her skin as soft as Lemster wooll, As white as snow on peakish hull, or Swanne that swims in Trent. 30 This mayden in a morne betime, Went forth when May was in her prime, to get sweet Cetywall, The hony-suckle, the Harlocke, The Lilly and the Lady-smocke, to decke her summer hall.
Word forms
betimesbetimingbetimedbetimed