bemean

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“I shouldn’t bemean myself to speak to her, if I was you, Joseph,” said his wife.

From A Little World by Fenn, George Manville

Everything is so foul already that surely it is not worth while to bemean ourselves any further by attempting to gloss over the filth!”

From Uncle's dream; And The Permanent Husband by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor

Faith, I wadna sae bemean mysel' to get the king oot o' Whitehall—wha they tell me is no that ill to get, gin yin had the chance—and in muckle the same way as Tam Lindsay.

From The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)

We belittle ourselves in the sight of God and men, bemean ourselves in the presence of the moral law, and stay more or less our progress in the great educational work of life.

From Aims and Aids for Girls and Young Women On the Various Duties of Life, Physical, Intellectual, And Moral Development; Self-Culture, Improvement, Dress, Beauty, Fashion, Employment, Education, The Home Relations, Their Duties To Young Men, Marriage, Womanhood And Happiness. by Weaver, George Sumner

"Nothing of the kind," cried Lavinia, furious that her mother should think she would so bemean herself.

From Madame Flirt A Romance of 'The Beggar's Opera' by Pearce, Charles Edward