beleefd
beleven
- (transitive) to experience, live through, go through
- (transitive) to profess, practice openly (notably a faith or conviction)
- (obsolete, transitive) to live, exist in (a time or space)
- (obsolete, transitive) to observe, follow (a command etc.)
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Pronounced as (IPA)
/bəˈleːft/
Etymology
From beleefd, in the older sense "to observe (a custom)". The word, itself a conjugation of beleven, thus originally meant "observing custom or protocol".
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