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bede

Pronunciation: /biːd/

The English word “bede” has 6 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. Prayer, request, supplication
  2. Rosary.

verb

  1. pray, offer, proffer
  2. request, demand, order, command, forbid
  3. proclaim, declare
  4. present, counsel, advise, rede, exhort

Etymology

From Middle English bēde (“prayer, request, supplication, order, command, rosary, bead”), from Old English ġebed (“prayer, petition, supplication, religious service, an ordinance”), from Proto-West Germanic *bed, from Proto-Germanic *bedą (“prayer, entreaty”). Cognate with Dutch gebed and bede, German Gebet.

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