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  • verb archaic Second-person singular simple present form of leave.

Etymologies

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leave +‎ -est

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Examples

  • Loosen thy bursting udder; welcome to thy teats the kids, whom thou leavest in the lambkins 'pens.

    The Cyclops 2008

  • Thou goest a pleasuring among thy friends and thou leavest me to sit sorrowing here alone.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • 'Tis a long voyage thou art bound on, father, after thou leavest me.

    Iphigenia at Aulis 2008

  • Loosen thy bursting udder; welcome to thy teats the kids, whom thou leavest in the lambkins 'pens.

    The Cyclops 2008

  • Thou leavest not to say, ‘I will ensure thee against his mischief and cut off from thee his speech’; but thou speakest not thus save only to the intent that I may continue to write thee letters and thou to fetch and carry between us, evening and morning, till thou ruin my repute.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • 'Tis a long voyage thou art bound on, father, after thou leavest me.

    Iphigenia at Aulis 2008

  • And leavest thou mine eyelids with weeping unfulfilled

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • [3859] Incolentibus patria, 'tis their country that are born in it, and they would think themselves banished to go to the place which thou leavest, and from which thou art so loath to depart.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  •     Freely the light limbs warms thou leavest coldly to languish, '

    Poems and Fragments 2006

  •     Freely the light limbs warms thou leavest coldly to languish, '

    Poems and Fragments 2006

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