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  • verb archaic Second-person singular simple present form of may.
  • verb Alternative spelling of mayest.

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Examples

  • So, hold on there with your retraction, Rod Blagojevich, thou mayst retract too quickly.

    Rod Blagojevich: Blacker Than Obama? | Manolith 2010

  • Perhaps it did not suit man to be completely freed from old bonds, from the steadying brakes of "Thou shalt not" and "Thou mayst not", and to be allowed to tear along straight towards the goal.

    Autumn Thomas Plastino Martin 2010

  • Minott has been of much assistance to us and, in gratitude, we have granted his wish that thou mayst be permitted to join him in the expedition of our scientists.

    "Microcosmic Buccaneers" by Harl Vincent, part 8 Johnny Pez 2009

  • Minott has been of much assistance to us and, in gratitude, we have granted his wish that thou mayst be permitted to join him in the expedition of our scientists.

    Archive 2009-05-01 Johnny Pez 2009

  • This exiled Queen of the Sky Realm mayst not be suble, but I be not one of thy serving wenches!

    TWQ: Every TV Episode 2009

  • And that thou mayst have the fullest trust in my word, I will give thee my nephew as a hostage.

    De Re Militari: The Society for Medieval Military History » Episodes of Medieval Warfare from the History of the Franks by Gregory of Tours 2009

  • Is likewise mine, that thou mayst find thy mother;

    Ion 2008

  • Gold, thou mayst tell me, hath o'er things like these

    Ion 2008

  • “Keep it then; but remember thou dash it not about according to thy custom, nor bellow, nor shout, nor cry as in a battle-field; think of the sacred character of the place, which exaggerates riot into blasphemy, and remember the persons whom thou mayst chance to see, an offence to some of whom, it may be, ranks in the same sense with blasphemy against Heaven itself.”

    Count Robert of Paris 2008

  • My opinion, that thou mayst know it, is that it was not for the sake of the Achaeans or me that thou didst slay thy guest, but to keep that gold in thy own house.

    Hecuba 2008

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