bewray

verb

1. (archaic, transitive)To accuse; malign; speak evil of.
2. (transitive)To reveal, divulge, or make (something) known; disclose.

   “His countenance bewraies he is displeasd.”

   “A comparison with the Divine Comedy of all these versions combined bewrays many points of resemblance, and even of absolute coincidence, in the general architecture and ethical structure of hell and paradise; in the description of the tortures and rewards; […]”

3. (transitive)To reveal, divulge, or make (something) known; disclose.

   “He tooke hir fast betwéene his armes, and not without his shame, Bewrayed plainly what he was and wherefore that he came.”

   “But to put you out of doubt that my wits were not all this while a wol-gathering, I was debating with my selfe whether in loue, it wer better to be constant, bewraying all the counsayles, or secret, being readye euery houre to flinch:”

   “So forth he vvent, / VVith heauy looke and lumpiſh pace, that plaine / In him bevvraid great grudge and maltalent; / His ſteed eke ſeemd t'apply his ſteps to his intent.”

   “Why, Warwick, canst thou speak against thy Liege, Whom thou obeyedst thirty and six years, And not bewray thy treason with a blush?”

   “Should we be silent and not speak, our raiment And state of bodies would bewray what life We have led since thy exile.”

4. (transitive)To reveal, divulge, or make (something) known; disclose.

   “And after a while came unto him they that stood by, and said to Peter, Surely thou also art one of them; for thy speech bewrayeth thee.”

   “1846, Introduction to Letter 40 in Henry Ellis (editor), Original Letters, Illustrative of English History, Third Series, Volume I, London: Richard Bentley, p. 100, While this busy search was diligently applied and put in execution, Humphrey Banaster (were it more for fear of loss of life and goods, or attracted and provoked by the avaricious desire of the thousand pounds) he bewrayed his guest and master to John Mitton, then Sheriff of Shropshire, …”

   “I fear that if I was to attempt to detain you at length my speech would bewray me, and you would discover I was not that master of professional allusions which you might expect me to be.”

   “One Scripture rule, at least, was unforgot; / He hid the outcast, and bewrayed him not; […]”

5. (obsolete, transitive)To reveal, divulge, or make (something) known; disclose.

   “Though thou deseruest hardly at my hands, Yet neuer shall these lips bewray thy life.”

   “But we will not eat nor drink with the lords of Witchland, who bewrayed and forsook us their sworn confederates at the sea-fight against the Ghouls.”

6. (obsolete, transitive)To reveal, divulge, or make (something) known; disclose.

   “They place affection by times, by pollicy, by appoyntment, if they frowne, who dares call them vnconstant, if bewray secrets, who will tearme them vntrue, if fall to other loues, who trembles not, if he call them vnfaithfull.”

   “For I was sore afraid of my Brothers, because they had all conspired together to kill him with the Sword that should bewray that Secret.”

   “For to discover this matter the better, he saith consequently: That the nature of virtuous men and those who have noble bringing up, is directly opposite unto that of long-tongued persons; and joining the reasons by which a man ought not to bewray his secret, together with those evils and inconveniences which curiosity and much babble do bring, and confirming all by fine similitudes and notable examples: ....”

7. (obsolete)To soil or befoul; to beray.

   “Obscene with filth the varlet lies bewray’d, Fal’n in the plash his wickedness had lay’d:”

   “Like caterpillars dangling under trees By slender threads, and swinging in the breeze, Which filthily bewray and sore disgrace The boughs in which are bred th’ unseemly race […]”