To announce or proclaim loudly and publicly, as if with a trumpet.
From 'be-' plus 'trumpet,' from Old French 'trompette,' possibly imitative in origin. The verb suggests broadcasting something widely and loudly.
The trumpet's piercing sound made it the perfect metaphor for loud announcement—'betrumpet' captures that sense of making something impossible to ignore, which is why it appears in Renaissance poetry about fame.
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