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

Etymologies

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put +‎ -est

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Examples

  • Hab 2: 15 Woe unto him that giveth his neighbour drink, that puttest thy bottle to him, and makest him drunken also, that thou mayest look on their nakedness!

    Protecting Our Daughters 2009

  • In the Deuteronomy passage above, the reason is somewhat generic: interest is forbidden, like many other ritual and ethical acts, "so that the Lord thy God may bless thee in all that thou puttest thy hand unto."

    Jay Michaelson: An Ancient Basis for Tomorrow's Financial Regulations: Rethinking Usury Law 2009

  • O Zeus, who puttest my foes to flight, now may I behold the day that frees me from cruel fear!

    The Heracleidae 2008

  • “This is a light matter to me, O thou that puttest the moons to shame,” replied he and went forth to fetch her what she sought.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Thou puttest reproach upon me, O Commander of the Faithful, and it becomes thee not to even my brothers with me; for, of the abundance of their speech and their deficiency of courtesy and gravity, each one of them hath gotten some maim or other.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • O Zeus, who puttest my foes to flight, now may I behold the day that frees me from cruel fear!

    The Heracleidae 2008

  • And as this was before thou puttest off immortalily, may I not presume that thou now, — with pitying eye,

    Clarissa Harlowe 2006

  • I hope not — But why, Belford, why, once more, puttest thou me in mind, that she may be overcome?

    Clarissa Harlowe 2006

  • And what a commendation will it be of thee to such a girl as Charlotte, when I shall acquaint her with the affront thou puttest upon the whole sex, by asking, Whether I think my reward, when I have subdued the most charming woman in the world, will be equal to my trouble? —

    Clarissa Harlowe 2006

  • And indeed thou seemest to own, that the slight thou puttest upon them is owing to my letting thee into them before-hand — undistingushing as well as ungrateful as thou art!

    Clarissa Harlowe 2006

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