What's the difference between befriend and befriendment?
Befriend
Definition:
(v. t.) To act as a friend to; to favor; to aid, benefit, or countenance.
Example Sentences:
(1) Today George Avakian, the jazz producer who befriended both of them, believes: “The session in which she did A Sailboat in the Moonlight is really the one that expresses their closeness musically and spiritually more than any other.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Holiday admitted she wanted to sing in the style that Young improvised, while he often studied the lyrics before playing a song.
(2) She rented a flat to be near his grave at Vienne, near Lyons, and was befriended by a neighbour, the octogenarian Baron Philippe de Rothschild, who had run a theatre in his youth.
(3) Might The Good Dinosaur be the new Cars – hugely popular with merchandise makers but Pixar’s least effective movie in terms of concept and realisation – or can Peter Sohn’s film about a 70-foot tall Apatosaurus who befriends a human boy transcend its slightly hackneyed storyline?
(4) Their biggest break was to move into Russia just after the break-up of the Soviet Union, buying up half the country's aluminium production facilities and befriending Oleg Deripaska, the oligarch associate of Nat Rothschild and Peter Mandelson.
(5) As in seriously ridic but also quite boring because Dave had to call this Stop Alan meeting in our kitchen :( and Picklesy is going to befriend him, as in mwahaha, because Dave said it would have to be a social outcast or Alan would smell a rat, and Hunty has started an effigy & Anna Soubry is doing this amaze visual profiling where she just kind of looks & she can instantly tell Alan is a millionaire of the noov persuasion?
(6) With eyes like big schooners of sherry he looks like a loveable alien you might like to befriend and take home."
(7) He giggles, and says people are going to be sadly disappointed if they befriend him for his lavish spending.
(8) Jurassic Park, for example, was never going to be a charming story about a young boy who successfully befriends a ravenous if depressed Tyrannosaurus rex.
(9) I Hate Being Single A Brooklyn hipster looks for love after being dumped, trying everything from an underground singles cult to befriending his banker.
(10) Though deadlocked at home, Barack Obama impressed both sides of British politics and in 2009 entered the hostile atmosphere of the Kremlin to befriend the then-president Dmitry Medvedev and make headway on a difficult disarmament treaty.
(11) The Independent Mental Capacity Advocacy (IMCA) service has been running for close to a decade to provide statutory advocacy for non-befriended people such as dementia sufferers who lack the capacity to make decisions on accommodation and medical treatment.
(12) Janan Mosazai, the Afghan ambassador in Islamabad, urged the cadets to befriend their Pakistani counterparts at the training academy.
(13) Much has been made of Mary Beard’s approach of befriending and even writing job references for some of her trolls .
(14) She befriends fellow models Jerry Hall and Jessica Lange.
(15) Edgerton also stars in a key supporting role as the sinister local man who attempts to befriend the new arrivals.
(16) The jury heard how Arshid and Basharat plied some of the girls with alcohol or drugs after initially befriending them.
(17) David Oelhoffen Loin des Hommes, meanwhile, focuses on the Franco-Algerian war and stars Viggo Mortensen as a teacher who befriends a dissident.
(18) Later, Studs would guide the careers of Big Bill Broonzy and other blues stars, and befriend Billie Holiday.
(19) Guided by Paul Britton and with the approval of those at the top of the Met, they used "Lizzy James" to befriend Stagg through a lonely hearts ad.
(20) There are some 3,000 Paro seals worldwide, the vast majority in Japan where they have even been used to befriend earthquake survivors.
Befriendment
Definition:
(n.) Act of befriending.
Example Sentences:
(1) Today George Avakian, the jazz producer who befriended both of them, believes: “The session in which she did A Sailboat in the Moonlight is really the one that expresses their closeness musically and spiritually more than any other.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Holiday admitted she wanted to sing in the style that Young improvised, while he often studied the lyrics before playing a song.
(2) She rented a flat to be near his grave at Vienne, near Lyons, and was befriended by a neighbour, the octogenarian Baron Philippe de Rothschild, who had run a theatre in his youth.
(3) Might The Good Dinosaur be the new Cars – hugely popular with merchandise makers but Pixar’s least effective movie in terms of concept and realisation – or can Peter Sohn’s film about a 70-foot tall Apatosaurus who befriends a human boy transcend its slightly hackneyed storyline?
(4) Their biggest break was to move into Russia just after the break-up of the Soviet Union, buying up half the country's aluminium production facilities and befriending Oleg Deripaska, the oligarch associate of Nat Rothschild and Peter Mandelson.
(5) As in seriously ridic but also quite boring because Dave had to call this Stop Alan meeting in our kitchen :( and Picklesy is going to befriend him, as in mwahaha, because Dave said it would have to be a social outcast or Alan would smell a rat, and Hunty has started an effigy & Anna Soubry is doing this amaze visual profiling where she just kind of looks & she can instantly tell Alan is a millionaire of the noov persuasion?
(6) With eyes like big schooners of sherry he looks like a loveable alien you might like to befriend and take home."
(7) He giggles, and says people are going to be sadly disappointed if they befriend him for his lavish spending.
(8) Jurassic Park, for example, was never going to be a charming story about a young boy who successfully befriends a ravenous if depressed Tyrannosaurus rex.
(9) I Hate Being Single A Brooklyn hipster looks for love after being dumped, trying everything from an underground singles cult to befriending his banker.
(10) Though deadlocked at home, Barack Obama impressed both sides of British politics and in 2009 entered the hostile atmosphere of the Kremlin to befriend the then-president Dmitry Medvedev and make headway on a difficult disarmament treaty.
(11) The Independent Mental Capacity Advocacy (IMCA) service has been running for close to a decade to provide statutory advocacy for non-befriended people such as dementia sufferers who lack the capacity to make decisions on accommodation and medical treatment.
(12) Janan Mosazai, the Afghan ambassador in Islamabad, urged the cadets to befriend their Pakistani counterparts at the training academy.
(13) Much has been made of Mary Beard’s approach of befriending and even writing job references for some of her trolls .
(14) She befriends fellow models Jerry Hall and Jessica Lange.
(15) Edgerton also stars in a key supporting role as the sinister local man who attempts to befriend the new arrivals.
(16) The jury heard how Arshid and Basharat plied some of the girls with alcohol or drugs after initially befriending them.
(17) David Oelhoffen Loin des Hommes, meanwhile, focuses on the Franco-Algerian war and stars Viggo Mortensen as a teacher who befriends a dissident.
(18) Later, Studs would guide the careers of Big Bill Broonzy and other blues stars, and befriend Billie Holiday.
(19) Guided by Paul Britton and with the approval of those at the top of the Met, they used "Lizzy James" to befriend Stagg through a lonely hearts ad.
(20) There are some 3,000 Paro seals worldwide, the vast majority in Japan where they have even been used to befriend earthquake survivors.