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- interjection
By God ! - adverb archaic
truly
Etymologies
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Examples
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For they in heart can think ene thing, and fain another in her speaking: and what was sweet and apparent, is smaterlich, and eke yshent. and when of service you have nede, pardie he will not rein nor rede. but when the Symnel it is eten, her curtesse is all foryetten.
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Provence, where the peasants say _pardie_ in place of _pardou_ when an exclamation of surprise comes from their lips.
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I thought, pardie, of the lurid verses written by young men who, in real life, know no haunt more lurid than a literary public-house.
The Works of Max Beerbohm Max Beerbohm 1914
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And pardie, Sir Gaheris, ye knew me well enough by my shield, and so do I know you by your shield, and though ye would break your oath I would not break mine; for there is not one here, nor ye, that shall think I am afeard of you, but I durst right well have ado with you, and yet we be sisters 'sons.
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[55] Pardex or Parde, corresponding to the modern French expletive, pardie.
Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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I know, by myself, what a gentleman and a knight's son must feel at the proffer of alms -- pardie!
The Last of the Barons — Volume 01 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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[55] Pardex or Parde, corresponding to the modern French expletive, pardie.
Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Volume 12 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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I know, by myself, what a gentleman and a knight's son must feel at the proffer of alms -- pardie!
The Last of the Barons — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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You will have the complaisance to make my duty to Monsieur Cuffe -- _oui, pardie!
The Wing-and-Wing Le Feu-Follet James Fenimore Cooper 1820
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Had thilk© faime tale in other guife been toldi j Had they been young (pardie) and Ihe been olde:
The Works of the English Poets.: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical 1779
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