Dictionary entry

Bewray (2)

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Be‐wray″, v. t. [imp. & p. p.Bewrayed (–rād″); p. pr. & vb. n.Bewraying.] [OE. bewraien, biwreyen; pref. be- + AS. wrēgan to accuse, betray; akin to OS. wrōgian, OHG. ruogēn, G. rügen, Icel. rægja, Goth. wrōhjan to accuse.] To expose; to reveal; to disclose; to betray.

The murder being once done, he is in less fear, and in more hope that the deed shall not be bewrayed or known.

Robynson (More's Utopia.)

Thy speech bewrayeth thee.

Matt. xxvi. 73.