† behetingn.
Obsolete.
Promise, promising.
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1303 R. Mannyng Handlyng Synne 11220 x Ȝe shende hyt [wedlock] wyþ ȝoure fals behetyng.
1400 in Pol. Rel. & L. Poems (1866) 242 A fals by-hety[n]g.
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