How often do you use the word “bespoken”?

In what situations? If not , what synonyms do you use instead?

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A few days ago

Experto Credo

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I use a tense of it (bespeaks) when I want to be snooty about things

A few days ago

Anonymous

‘Bespoken’ is a literary term sparingly used in daily speech or writing.

It is the past participle of ‘bespeak’ which means ‘to show or to suggest. It means, indicate, point, signal.

The way he dresses bespeak his robust confidence.

The word ‘Bespoken’ has 2 senses:

1.Custom-made, Designed, Tailor-made ( of clothing)

2. Pledged, betrothed engaged to be married.

Eg., I have bespoken a frame for her photograph. ( Custom-made)

A few days ago

wat_more_can_i_say?

never in spoken English and rarely in written English since it’s Archaic–old English.

as for synonyms, i’ld use ask or speak or show or indicate. hmm, or just plain spoken 😀

A few days ago

ruth4526

I use engaged

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