Lexicographical Neighbors of Beknaving
Literary usage of Beknaving
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Death of Elizabeth by James Anthony Froude (1881)
"The words were made a subject of an inquiry before Sir An- >hony St. Leger; and
I'aulet meant, it seemed, that the " beknaving and knocking about the pate ..."
2. Representative English Comedies: With Introductory Essays and Notes, an by Charles Mills Gayley, Alwin Thaler (1914)
"Again 'Asper' Jonson, beknaving him, "Dost know the duke of Venice?" "I am his
right hand," replies 'Octavio' Day. "Tell him I hate him" (continues Jonson); ..."
3. Life and Letters of Thomas Cromwell by Roger Bigelow Merriman (1902)
"But Cromwell succeeded in evading the demands of the Imperial ambassador also ;
in fact he displayed such ability in ' beknaving' ..."
4. The United Kingdom: A Political History by Goldwin Smith (1899)
"Even in the height of his power the low-born minister had been treated like a
menial, his master " beknaving him once or twice a week, and sometimes ..."
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