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  • verb Archaic spelling of yield.

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Examples

  • In testimony whereof, they shewed his Glove, avouching moreover, that neither by force (or otherwise) they would yeelde, or deliver him any thing which they had aboorde their Ship.

    The Decameron 2004

  • It is high time Dioneus, that you should taste part of the charge and paine, which poore women have felt and undergone in their soveraigntie and government: wherefore, be you our King, and rule us with such awefull authority, that the ending of your dominion may yeelde us all contentment.

    The Decameron 2004

  • Beleeve me Lady (quoth he) it did a little distast me, even as I could have bin offended with him, that should plucke out my heart to bestow it on you, if it would yeelde you any contentment.

    The Decameron 2004

  • Now before the Abbots comming thither, the Harbenger that marshalled all such matters, had provided for his Traine in the Village, some in one place, and others elsewhere, in the best maner that the Towne could yeelde.

    The Decameron 2004

  • Pagamino, demanded his Wife of him; whereto he yeelde, provided, that shee would willing goe away with him.

    The Decameron 2004

  • But, because I know the purity of thy soule, I wil yeelde (to disoblige thee of thy promise) as perhaps no wise man else would do: mooved thereto onely by feare of the Magitian, who seeing

    The Decameron 2004

  • Lisettaes brethren and friends, made him gladly yeelde, and to undergo what shape the poore man pleased, which thus he ordered.

    The Decameron 2004

  • But if they stand in such convenient manner as you have described, all the world could not yeelde the like elsewhere, so apt and sutable to your purpose: wherefore, with such expedition as possibly can use, I will make the Image, and send it you, as also the charme, verie fairely written.

    The Decameron 2004

  • And therefore at this time wee doe extende our good minde vnto your highnesse, by well concerning, and publishing also abroad, how much we repute our selfe bound in an euerlasting remembrance for this good pleasure to our Subiects, meaning to yeelde a much more large and plentifull testification of our thankefulnesse, when time conuenient shall fall out, and the same shall bee looked for at our handes.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • Citie fully determined to yeelde vp themselues and the Citie, with honourable conditions. 296

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

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