Meanings
adjectivebethreatened (not comparable)
alternative bethreaten’d
- not comparableobsoleterareThreatened by mortal danger.
My plummet’s light, it cannot sink nor sound; // Oh, shall my rock-bethreaten’d soul be drown’d?
1635, Francis Quarles, Emblems, divine and moral (1818 reprint, Chiswick Press), book III, emblem 11, page 178
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