bedurst

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A form of bedare — To defy.

Scrabble 10

Meanings

verb
  1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of bedare

    […] and, though he strove / To make her see 't, bedurst not tell his love […]

    1810, The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper, page 161
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