Meaning & use
Kythe
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To become visible, appear, or make oneself or something known.
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In the old Scots poem, truth is said to kythe in the end, no matter how long it is hidden.
Her true feelings began to kythe through her carefully guarded expression.
A note on using this word
A Scots and northern English dialect word, related to the archaic English "couth," both descending from an Old English root meaning "known."
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