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#* {{quote-book|title=Counselling Adult Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse|page=17|author=Christiane Sanderson|year=2006|passage=Child sexual abusers are highly manipulative in their '''befriending''' of parents and children and are able to deceive all types of family.}} |
#* {{quote-book|title=Counselling Adult Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse|page=17|author=Christiane Sanderson|year=2006|passage=Child sexual abusers are highly manipulative in their '''befriending''' of parents and children and are able to deceive all types of family.}} |
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# {{lb|en|transitive|dated}} To act as a friend to, to assist. |
# {{lb|en|transitive|dated}} To act as a friend to, to assist. |
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#*: Brother servants must '''befriend''' one another. |
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#* {{quote-book|title={{w|A Hoosier Holiday}}|page=417|author={{w|Theodore Dreiser}}, Franklin Booth|year=1916|passage=an Irish section boss, whose wife (my mother having '''befriended''' her years before when first she and her husband came to Sullivan) had now, at the time my mother was compelled to make this return pilgrimage, '''befriended''' us by letting us stay - mother and us three youngsters - until she could find a house.}} |
#* {{quote-book|title={{w|A Hoosier Holiday}}|page=417|author={{w|Theodore Dreiser}}, Franklin Booth|year=1916|passage=an Irish section boss, whose wife (my mother having '''befriended''' her years before when first she and her husband came to Sullivan) had now, at the time my mother was compelled to make this return pilgrimage, '''befriended''' us by letting us stay - mother and us three youngsters - until she could find a house.}} |
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Revision as of 12:30, 19 November 2018
English
Etymology
From be- + friend. Compare Saterland Frisian befrüündje (“to befriend”), Dutch bevrienden (“to befriend”), German Low German befründen (“to befriend”), German befreunden (“to befriend”).
Pronunciation
- enPR: bĭfrĕnd, (deprecated use of
|lang=parameter) IPA(key): /bɪˈfɹɛnd/ - (deprecated use of
|lang=parameter) Rhymes: -ɛnd
Verb
befriend (third-person singular simple present befriends, present participle befriending, simple past and past participle befriended)
- (transitive) To become a friend of, to make friends with.
- 1854, Henry David Thoreau, Walden, p. 143.
- Every little pine needle expanded and swelled with sympathy and befriended me.
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- 1854, Henry David Thoreau, Walden, p. 143.
- (transitive, dated) To act as a friend to, to assist.
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- Brother servants must befriend one another.
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- (transitive) To favor.
- 1599, William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
- If it will please Caesar / To be so good to Caesar, as to hear me, / I shall beseech him to befriend himself.
- 1709, John Denham "The Sophy", in Poems and translations: with the Sophy, a tragedy, Fifth edition [1]
- Now if your plots be ripe, you are befriended / With opportunity.
- 1709, Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism
- Be thou the first true merit to befriend; / His praise is lost, who stays till all commend.
- 1712, Joseph Addison, Cato: A tragedy. As it is acted at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane, by His Majesty's servants, Act II, edited and published by Jacob Tonson (1733)
- See them embarked, And tell me if the winds and seas befriend them.
- 1843, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, ch. 4, "Morrison's Pill"
- This Universe has its Laws. If we walk according to the Law, the Law-Maker will befriend us; if not, not.
- 1599, William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
Antonyms
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Translations
make friends — see make friends
to act as a friend to
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