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adjectivebethorned (comparative more bethorned, superlative most bethorned)
comparative more bethorned · superlative most bethorned
- archaicpoeticBearing thorns.
Bethorned with woe, and fruited thick with shame.
1896, William Morris, Poems by the Way & Love is Enough, page 238
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