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Webster 1828 Edition
Belave
BELA'VE
,Verb.
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Definition 2024
belave
belave
English
Verb
belave (third-person singular simple present belaves, present participle belaving, simple past and past participle belaved)
Etymology 2
Anomalous alteration of beleve (“to remain, be alive”) and belive (“to remain, stay”), both from Middle English beliven (“to remain”), from Old English belīfan (“to remain”), from Proto-Germanic *bilībaną (“to remain”), from Proto-Indo-European *lip- (“to stick, glue”). Cognate with Dutch blijven (“to remain”), German bleiben (“to remain”). More at belive, leave.
Verb
belave (third-person singular simple present belaves, present participle belaving, simple past and past participle belaved)