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/bɪwˈɛr/ Listen

verb

Beware v. t. To avoid; to take care of; to have a care for. (Obs.) "Priest, beware your beard." "To wish them beware the son."

Beware v. i.

To be on one's guard; to be cautious; to take care; commonly followed by of or lest before the thing that is to be avoided. "Beware of all, but most beware of man!" "Beware the awful avalanche."

To have a special regard; to heed. (Obs.) "Behold, I send an Angel before thee.... Beware of him, and obey his voice." Note: This word is a compound from be and the Old English ware, now wary, which is an adjective. "Be ye war of false prophetis." It is used commonly in the imperative and infinitive modes, and with such auxiliaries (shall, should, must, etc.) as go with the infinitive.

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"Beware" Quotes from Famous Books

... filled with outcries of laughter from the breathless breast of a child, it is that he is pretending to be surprised at finding his mother where he bade her pretend to hide. This is the comedy that never tires. Let the elder who cannot understand its charm beware how he tries to put a more intelligible form of delight in the place of it; for, if not, he will find that children also have a manner of substitution, and that they will put half-hearted laughter in the ...

— Essays • Alice Meynell

... "Sieur, beware what you do! What are your intentions towards these helpless women who have no other protector but yourself? You cannot be so lost to all sense of honour and chivalry as to abandon them to perish on this desolate shore! How can you expect the blessing of God upon this enterprise if you ...

— Marguerite De Roberval - A Romance of the Days of Jacques Cartier • T. G. Marquis

... apprehend some Misfortune in this unhappy Journey. Sir, (said she to him, alarm'd, without knowing the Reason why) I tremble, seeing you today as it were designed the last of my Life: Preserve your self, my dear Prince; and tho' the Exercise you take be not very dangerous, beware of the least Hazards, and bring me back all that I trust with you. Don Pedro, who had never found her so handsome and so charming before, embraced her several times, and went out of the Palace with his Followers, with a Design not to return till ...

— The Works of Aphra Behn - Volume V • Aphra Behn

... "and I will blow you all to atoms, myself as well. Beware! I hold all our lives in my hand. ...

— Jack Harkaway's Boy Tinker Among The Turks - Book Number Fifteen in the Jack Harkaway Series • Bracebridge Hemyng

... members ought carefully, watchfully, diligently, and conscientiously to beware of and avoid whatever may give any just offence or scandal to one another. For we are charged to "give none offence neither to Jew nor Gentile, nor to the Church of God," 1 Cor. x. 32. And our Saviour tells us, that "wo to them by whom the offence ...

— The Divine Right of Church Government • Sundry Ministers Of Christ Within The City Of London

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