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▪ I. bereft, ppl. a.|bɪˈrɛft|
[f. bereave.]
1. Forcibly deprived, robbed, having lost the possession or use of; void of.
1586Bright Melanch. xvii. 105 Man transported with passion is utterly bereft of advisement. 1596Shakes. Tam. Shr. v. ii. 143 A woman mou'd, is like a fountaine troubled..thicke, bereft of beautie. 1699Pomfret Love triumph. over Reason 194 Not quite bereft Of sense, tho' very small remains were left. 1858J. Martineau Stud. Chr. 108 A pinched and anxious mind bereft of power.
†2. Taken away, removed, quite gone. Obs.
1531Elyot Gov. iii. xxiii. Deade or birefte from the minde.
3. Deprived of a near relation, bereaved. rare.
1828Scott F.M. Perth, The helpless and bereft father.
▪ II. † beˈreft, v. Obs. rare.
[f. prec.]
By-form of bereave: to deprive.
1557Recorde Whetst. A iij, To berefte the realme of some singulare commoditie. 1564Haward Eutropius To Rdr. 6 That Tully should..bereft y⊇ Grecians of theyr exactnesse in all sciences. |