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- noun Archaic spelling of
sight .
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Examples
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The fourth is if the fysshe be frayde with the syght of a man.
Philocrites: It's Friday: Time for Middle English cooking! 2005
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For thinges passed out of longe tyme from a mannes mynde or from his syght, turnen sone into forzetynge: Because that mynde of man ne may not ben comprehended ne witheholden, for the freeltee of mankynde.
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For thinges passed out of longe tyme from a mannes mynde or from his syght, turnen sone into forzetynge: Because that mynde of man ne may not ben comprehended ne witheholden, for the freeltee of mankynde.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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¶ Caste thy syght downwarde/and shewe mekenesse/bothe in thy herte and body.
A Ryght Profytable Treatyse Compendiously Drawen Out Of Many and Dyvers Wrytynges Of Holy Men Thomas Betson
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Certaynly sayth the sayd saynt Ierom/[the] pryncypall desyre is of suche wymen [that] men sholde fest theyr eyen in [the] faces of them by the prouocacõn & syght of theyr precyous arraye.
A Ryght Profytable Treatyse Compendiously Drawen Out Of Many and Dyvers Wrytynges Of Holy Men Thomas Betson
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From his fyrst werynge/his syght shal not mynysshe
The cõforte of louers The Comfort of Lovers Stephen Hawes
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It was a hevy syght to se bryght swordes on basnites lyght.
Ballads of Scottish Tradition and Romance Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Third Series Various
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¶ From his gloryous syght thus he vs estrau {n} geth
The Assemble of Goddes Anonymous
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Thou traitour I say of thy contrei, darest thou come into oure syght?
A Treatise of Schemes and Tropes Richard Sherry
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And also beware to mayntene or botrace suthe lyes whiche is abhomynable in the syght of god.
A Ryght Profytable Treatyse Compendiously Drawen Out Of Many and Dyvers Wrytynges Of Holy Men Thomas Betson
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