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- noun obsolete Ghost; spirit.
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- noun Obsolete form of
ghost .
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Examples
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Thurgh thyn humblesse, the goost that in thalighte,
The Canterbury Tales 2006
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¶ These folowynge ben the .vij. gyftes of the holy goost/that euery man sholde desyre to haue and kepe.
A Ryght Profytable Treatyse Compendiously Drawen Out Of Many and Dyvers Wrytynges Of Holy Men Thomas Betson
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Ihesu cryste his oonly sone our lorde/the whiche is conceyued of the holy goost/borne of Mary the mayde/suffred payne & passyon vn [der] Ponce Pylate.
A Ryght Profytable Treatyse Compendiously Drawen Out Of Many and Dyvers Wrytynges Of Holy Men Thomas Betson
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The holy goost wyll be with the & teche [the] to kepe them parfytly.
A Ryght Profytable Treatyse Compendiously Drawen Out Of Many and Dyvers Wrytynges Of Holy Men Thomas Betson
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Also I loue the/and thanke the in moost especyall for that thou hast made me heyre & partener of thy blysse in heuen perpetuelly/where I trust to see the face to face with the fader and the holy goost in eternall peas and glorye Amen
A Ryght Profytable Treatyse Compendiously Drawen Out Of Many and Dyvers Wrytynges Of Holy Men Thomas Betson
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Whan thou goost to bedde or to thy rest/thynke what [thou] hast thought/what [thou] hast sayd/what [thou] hast done that daye.
A Ryght Profytable Treatyse Compendiously Drawen Out Of Many and Dyvers Wrytynges Of Holy Men Thomas Betson
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And the vnclene goost debrekynge hym, and cryinge with grete vois, wente awey fro hym.
The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume III (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland I Various 1885
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Who-so be greued in his goost, gou {er} ne hi {m} bettir;
Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867
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Gibbs.] [Footnote 10: “It is nought all good to the goost that the gut asketh” we may well say with William who wrote _Piers Ploughmon_, v. 1, p. 17, l. 533-4, after reading the lists of things eatable, and dishes, in Russell’s pages.
Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867
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