2. Verb. (past participle of besing) ¹
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Definition of Besung
1. besing [v] - See also: besing
Lexicographical Neighbors of Besung
Literary usage of Besung
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Old Picture Books: Words of Good Counsel on the Choice and Use of Books by James Baldwin, Oakland Free Library, Alfred William Pollard (1902)
"As these verses remind us, Porter was a patron of many other poets besides Herrick,
and by them also was duly besung. He was a patron, too (the trait is too ..."
2. The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs by William Morris (1904)
"O Master, O thou great of heart and tongue, Thou well mayst ask me why I wander
here, In raiment rent of stories oft besung! But of thy gentleness draw thou ..."
3. Adolescence: Its Psychology and Its Relations to Physiology, Anthropology by Granville Stanley Hall (1904)
"They have the finest hilts and scabbards, and are besung as invested with a charm
or spell, and symbolic of loyalty and self-control, for they must never be ..."
4. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1893)
"As these verses remind us, Porter was a patron of many other poets besides Herrick,
and by them also was duly besung. He was a patron, too (the trait is too ..."
5. The Monist by Hegeler Institute (1913)
"He is besung in all the worlds as the Impaled One. ... It is perhaps not impossible
that there is here the echo of Christian story. ..."
6. The Works of Thomas Carlyle: (complete). by Thomas Carlyle (1897)
"... by solemn Convention Decree and Decrees, and wooden "Model of th« Vengeur;"
believed, bewept, besung by the whole French People to this hour, ..."
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