byspel

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noun

An example.

OriginMiddle English byspel ← Old English biġspel →
Scrabble 13
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Meanings

nounbyspel (plural not attested)
  1. no pluralnonstandardrareAn example.

    For byspel, there will be no more write-offs for children and no more write-offs for interest payments on mortgages.

    2015, LT Wolf, The World King (fiction), →ISBN
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    I don't like using ð for most words at the beginning of the word simply because ð looks like a d and huru Ð looks like a D and would encourage people using the “d” instead of “th” for byspel: “dat” instead of “that” … and others.

    2011, Michael Everson, The Oxford English Dictionary on eð

    As far as Rostam could tell, the only thing needed to enlist in the Legion was a heartbeat. A byspel of this was that the Army carefully screen'd their soldiers for AIDS and regularly tested everyone for it owing to the likelihood of blood transfusions straight from one soldier to another on the battlefield.

    2015, LT Wolf, The World King - Book I: The Reckoning

    I confronted my little dream quite amusingly while he set a perfect parental byspel (example) by hearing me out with his sublime expressions, and as I finished my bit with a collective lot of sighs; 'It was just a bad dream.'

    2015, Prashant Mishra, The Immortal Death

Synonyms & antonyms

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Origin

  1. Old Englishbiġspel
  2. Middle Englishbyspel
  3. Englishbyspel

From Middle English byspel, bispel, from Old English biġspel, bīspel (“a proverb; pattern; example”), equivalent to by- + spell (“talk, saying, discourse, story”). Compare Scots byspel (“byword; rarety; outcast”), Saterland Frisian Biespil (“example; pattern”), Middle Dutch bijspel (“proverb; parable”), German Low German Bispill (“example”), German Beispiel (“example”).

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APA

byspel. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/byspel

MLA

“byspel.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/byspel. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “byspel,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/byspel.

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