begone

Meanings

1. 1
   intj

   archaic or literary: a forceful command to go away

   Begone from this house, the furious owner ordered the intruder.

A fused spelling of the imperative phrase be gone, attested since Middle English. Gone originally describes someone who has departed; in the command be gone, and later begone, it came to demand immediate departure.

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