Definitions
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- verb archaic Second-person singular simple present form of
avail .
Etymologies
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avail + -est
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Examples
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Ah! thou art too laggard a lover, and thou nothing availest!
Theocritus Bion and Moschus Rendered into English Prose 300 BC-260 BC Theocritus 1878
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Lady, thou art so great, and so availest, that whoso wishes grace, and has not recourse to thee, wishes his desire to fly without wings.
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 11 Charles Dudley Warner 1864
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Thou wi 'that tongue o' thine own, if granted occasion availest
The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus Gaius Valerius Catullus 1855
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