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- verb archaic Second-person singular present simple form of
live
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Examples
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Yet observe how mildly Christ tells her of it; he doth not call her strumpet, but tells her, He with whom thou livest is not thy husband: and then leaves it to her own conscience to say the rest.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John) 1721
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To be the "livest" of them was as much his ambition now as it had been to excel at making money, at playing golf, at motor-driving, at oratory, at climbing to the McKelvey set.
Babbitt Sinclair Lewis 1918
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Virginia had grown to be the "livest" town, for its age and population, that America had ever produced.
Roughing It Mark Twain 1872
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Virginia had grown to be the "livest" town, for its age and population, that America had ever produced.
Roughing It, Part 5. Mark Twain 1872
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Virginia had grown to be the "livest" town, for its age and population, that America had ever produced.
Roughing It 1871
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If you say the word you can be appointed to the livest committee —
THEFT 2010
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And we know that a certain percentage of them, the livest and most daring, will fall into the well.
Chapter 16 2010
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I insisted on travelling or loafing with the livest, keenest men, and it was just these live, keen ones that did most of the drinking.
Chapter 21 2010
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Virginia City, he observed, had grown to be the ‘livest’ town, for its age and population, that America had ever produced.
LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY JR. ROY MORRIS 2010
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Virginia City, Nevada, was “the livest town that America had ever produced,” Mark Twain bragged, adding that the city “afforded me the most vigorous enjoyment of life I had ever experienced.”
LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY JR. ROY MORRIS 2010
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