besing means to sing of or sing about; celebrate in song or poetry; sing the praises of; praise; laud. It carries an Arena rating of 1754, earned across 61 head-to-head judged battles.
Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, besing ranks #966 of 13,220 for Most Beautiful Words, #1,646 of 13,220 for Most Ingenious Words, #3,339 of 13,220 for Most Malleable Words, #4,800 of 13,220 for Most Whimsical Words.
Why “besing” is a great word
BESING — [Verb] To sing of or about; to celebrate or bewail in song or poetry. From Middle English besingen, from Old English besingan ("to sing of, bewail, enchant"), from Proto-West Germanic *bisingwan ("to sing about"), equivalent to the prefix be- ("of, about") + sing. Unlike "chant," which implies a ritualistic, repetitive cadence, or "eulogize," which is praise delivered in prose, often funereal, to besing is to weave a subject into the very fabric of melody. It is the scop in the firelit hall recounting a hero's deeds, the villagers turning the harvest into a round, the solitary voice on a hillside trying to fix a memory in a tune—the oldest human attempt to anchor what matters against the forgetting tide.
Etymology
From Middle English besingen, from Old English besingan (“to sing of, bewail, sing charms, enchant”), from Proto-West Germanic *bisingwan (“to sing about”), equivalent to be- (“of, about”) + sing. Cognate with Saterland Frisian besjunge (“to sing about”), West Frisian besjonge (“to sing about, praise”), Dutch bezingen (“to sing of, chant”), German besingen (“to sing of, sing the praises of”), Danish and Norwegian Bokmål besynge (“to sing of”), Swedish besjunga (“to sing of”).
verb
- To sing of or sing about; celebrate in song or poetry; sing the praises of; praise; laud.“I have read Stories, (I fear, too true ones;) how young Lords, like you, Have thus besung mean Windows, rhymed their Sufferings Ev'n to th' Abuse of Things Divine, set up Plain Girls, like me, the Idols of their Worship, Then left them […]”
- To sing to.
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