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from The Century Dictionary.
- A Middle English form of
yield .
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Examples
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Euery yere ones, the Saracenes also are bound of duetie to visite the house of God, in the citie of Mecha: bothe to acknowledge their homage, and to yelde vnto Mohomete his yerely honour at his Sepulchre there.
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And the housebande men beside this rente, yelde vnto the Kynges maiestie, a fiueth of their fruictes yerely.
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To your good Lordeshippe then I yelde and committe, the firste fruictes of my libertie, the firste croppe of my labours, this first daie of the Newe yere: beseching the same in as good parte to receiue it, as I humblie offre it, and at your pleasure to vnfolde the Fardle, and considre the stuffe.
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Luke Warde: the other of Master Robert Withrington, and his hardie consort Master Christopher Lister as farre as 44. degrees of southerly latitude, set out at the direction and charge of the right honorable the Earle of Cumberland, both which in diuers respectes may yelde both profite and pleasure to the reader, being carefully perused.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Gode gyffe us alle grace, to yelde dew thankes to our Lorde Gode, Gode of Inglonde, for verely He hathe shoyd Hym selff Gode of Inglond, or rather an Inglyssh Gode, yf we consydyr and pondyr welle alle Hys procedynges with us from tyme to tyme.
Vietnam: Solutions McCarthy, Mary 1967
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[G] Rete thankynges lawde & honoure we merytoryously ben bounde to yelde and offre vnto wryters of hystoryes, whiche gretely haue prouffyted oure mortal lyf, that shewe vnto the reders and herers by the ensamples of thynges passyd, what thynge is to be desyred.
Catalogue of the William Loring Andrews Collection of Early Books in the Library of Yale University Addison Van Name
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Religion against hym: but the scripture doth not settfurth vnto vs ony error/no vncõsideratnes or rashe boldnes in this matier/but doth teache vs playnly to yelde vnto Godd confession in deedes and in wordes.
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This tyraunt Phalaris hindred Menalippus in a certaine sute: for he contending in iudgement with one of Phalaris frendes, the tyraunt commaunded him to giue ouer his suite: whervnto, because he was not obedient, he threatned to put him to death, except he would yelde.
The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 William Painter
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"Thys yere was much a doo in the yelde-halle for the mayer for the comyns wold not have had Semer, for be cause of yell May-day." —
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` God yelde thee, freend, and this in special, '1055
Troilus and Criseyde Geoffrey Chaucer
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