Definitions

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  • verb archaic Second-person singular present simple form of bear

Etymologies

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bear + -est

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Examples

  • Come out, come out, wherever you are and let us have your very 'bearest' comment in the boxes below, just for old times sake.

    Fool.co.uk - Headlines 2009

  • Preserve the seal which thou bearest on this scroll.

    Iphigenia at Aulis 2008

  • Remember thy servant, O Lord, according to the favor which thou bearest unto thy people; and grant that, increasing in knowledge and love of thee, he may go from strength to strength in the life of perfect service in thy heavenly kingdom; through Jesus Christ our Lord.

    Robert Franklin Harris, RIP Fr Timothy Matkin 2008

  • Thou thinkest to overtake them, while thou bearest Follies, which slay thee whatso way thou farest.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Here's the question: Librarians have long complained about publishers not keeping their backlists in print, or keep them on the bearest life support.

    Oh, Grow Up Pt. 3 Roger Sutton 2006

  • Preserve the seal which thou bearest on this scroll.

    Iphigenia at Aulis 2008

  • Yea, I have heard of him in bygone days; but tell me, whose are the tender boys thou bearest in thine arms?

    The Heracleidae 2008

  • Thou alone bearest thy country's burden, thou and none other; wherefore there await thee such struggles as needs must.

    The Bacchantes 2008

  • Yea, I have heard of him in bygone days; but tell me, whose are the tender boys thou bearest in thine arms?

    The Heracleidae 2008

  • Thou alone bearest thy country's burden, thou and none other; wherefore there await thee such struggles as needs must.

    The Bacchantes 2008

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