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View synonyms for beldam
beldam
[ bel-duhm, -dam ]
beldam
/ ˈbɛldəm /
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of beldam1
C15: from bel- grand (as in grandmother ), from Old French bel beautiful, from Latin bellus + dam mother, variant of dame
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Example Sentences
At last the beldam stopped in an out-of-the-way part of the town, before a strange-looking house.
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The beldam hurried hither and thither, and with the help of the guinea pigs and squirrels quickly made the soup.
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Was the beldam an enchantress, and were these little animals children, whom she had stolen and made victims of her enchantments?
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Alma Mater was to me injusta noverca; and the old beldam only gave me my M.A. degree because she could not avoid it.
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He had a certain amount of faith in the divinations of magic, and at least it could do no harm to see what the beldam would say.
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