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- verb archaic Second-person singular simple present form of
might
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Examples
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"Hadst thou made small notches," Koogah reproved, "thou mightst have brought report."
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"Hadst thou made small notches," Koogah reproved, "thou mightst have brought report."
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Thus, I urge thee to protect Pan's dominions and reputations wherever thou mightst go.
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Thou mightst even say that men create their gods, as much as gods create men, for as I, untutored or read that I be, understand it, it is a mutual thing.
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Thou hast so happy a knack of doing the most foolish things in the wisest manner, that thou mightst pass thy extravagances for rational actions, even in the eyes of Prudence herself.
Redgauntlet 2008
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That from thy friends thou mightst conceal his birth;
Ion 2008
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Thou hast fished salmon a thousand times, and mightst have taken a lesson.
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That from thy friends thou mightst conceal his birth;
Ion 2008
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Now, speaking conjecturally, we think thou mightst find in that camp some cavalier who, for the love of truth and his own augmentation of honour, will do battle with this same traitor of
The Talisman 2008
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“Wert thou not my benefactor, or one who has showed will to be such, and were it not that it is to thy confidence I owe the freedom of these hands, which thou mightst have loaded with fetters, I would show thee that, unarmed as I am, compulsion would be no easy task.”
The Talisman 2008
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