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- verb archaic Second-person singular simple present form of
constrain
Etymologies
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Examples
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And anon they were tormented within him, and began to cry: Let us go! wherefore constrainest thou for to be so tormented?
The Golden Legend, vol. 4 1230-1298 1900
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O Donatus, wherefore constrainest thou me to issue out with torments?
The Golden Legend, vol. 4 1230-1298 1900
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She smiled as she spake; and now all the passion of anguish seemed to have left her for that while; but Viridis cast her arms about her neck and wept upon her bosom, and said: Woe's me! for I see that thou wilt go whatsoever I may say or do; I strove to be angry with thee, but I might not, and now I see that thou constrainest me as thou dost all else.
The Water of the Wondrous Isles William Morris 1865
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She smiled as she spake; and now all the passion of anguish seemed to have left her for that while; but Viridis cast her arms about her neck and wept upon her bosom, and said: Woe’s me! for I see that thou wilt go whatsoever I may say or do; I strove to be angry with thee, but I might not, and now I see that thou constrainest me as thou dost all else.
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