Meanings
present singular third person beshares · participle present besharing · participle past beshared · past beshared
- transitiveTo share about; share across or share with; distribute among others; share.
Rose, my wife, was convinced that things do not happen by chance, that they are “beshared," meant to be.
2004, Academy of Orthomolecular Medicine, Journal of orthomolecular medicine2 more examples
[...] now lodges in, with bedding and furniture of the same chamber, with the use of six diaper napkins, six flaxen towels, two table cloths, two pair of sheets, one pair of pillows (beshares), during his natural life, for his own lodging and use only.
1862, James Phippen, Descriptive sketches of Rochester, Chatham, and their vicinitiesWe shall see men that by the world were cut in pieces, burnt in flames, and drowned in the seas, for the love they bear to the Lord of the place. Pliable. This is enough to delight one's heart. How shall we get to beshare these joys?
2005, L. P. Leavell, The Pilgrim's Progress from This World to That Which Is to Come
Origin
From be- + share. Compare Swedish beskära (“to give; donate; apportion; assign”) and German bescheren (“to give; present with; bestowe”).
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