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- verb archaic Second-person singular simple present form of
add .
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Examples
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If thou enter the privy, thy colour changeth, and when thou comest out, thou addest ugliness to ugliness.
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She rejoined, Then why seest thou all the other merchants bid high for me and art silent nor sayest a word neither addest one dinar to my price?
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Thou addest, all may leave thee with fleeting of the night:
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If thou art minded to force superfluities upon her when she is satisfied, that which thou addest will prove either unpleasant or harmful.
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Ha, Pantagruel, how thou addest greater heat to the firebrand that is in us!
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Ha, Pantagruel, how thou addest greater heat to the firebrand that is in us!
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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For Nature is contented with little and with the smallest things, and, if, being satisfied, thou wilt overlay it with more than needs, that which thou addest will either become unpleasant or hurtful.
The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius 1908
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"O my scholar, I think thee happy by having this opinion, if thou addest this also."
The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius 1908
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If thou art minded to force superfluities upon her when she is satisfied, that which thou addest will prove either unpleasant or harmful.
The Consolation of Philosophy Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius 1896
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Since it will not be a mystery, divine and whole in all its parts, when thou addest any thing to it of thyself also.
NPNF1-12. Saint Chrysostom: Homilies on the Epistles of Paul to the Corinthians Editor 1889
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