Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- past participle obsolete Given.
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Examples
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I thought yeven ou might know that Trent Lott served as Senate Majority Leader for a while and will soon be the GOP Minority Whip–respectively the number one and number two positions within the party.
Think Progress » CNN: Bush Is ‘Very Seriously’ Considering Sending More Troops To Iraq 2006
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And there is a vessel of marbre, undre the table, to resseyve the oyle, thare of thay yeven unto pylgrymes: for it heleth of many sykenesses.
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And there is a vessel of marbre, undre the table, to resseyve the oyle, thare of thay yeven unto pylgrymes: for it heleth of many sykenesses.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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/To Mary-queen the praise be yeven/She sent the gentle sleep from heaven/That slid into my soul (284-88).
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Thirty-yight — thirty-yeven — thirty-yight fathoms again; the three casts consumed an hour, with everyone wet to the skin and exhausted.
Hornblower And The Hotspur Forester, C. S. 1962
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Up roos tho oon of thise olde wise, and with his hand made contenaunce that men sholde holden hem stille, and yeven hym audience.
Medieval People Eileen Edna Power 1914
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Wherfore kyng Edward sente hyse ambassatours to the kyng of Almaigne, Spayne, and of Aragon, and to manye other dukes and erles beyonde the see, preyenge and askynge counseill and helpe of the seid matier: of whiche some because of affynyte and for yeftes yeven, and some for good and faire beheste of yeftes, graunted the kyng his axynge.
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And there is a vessel of marbre, undre the table, to resseyve the oyle, thare of thay yeven unto pylgrymes: for it heleth of many sykenesses.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 08 Asia, Part I Richard Hakluyt 1584
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“I thought yeven (SIC) ou(SIC) might know that Trent Lott served as Senate Majority Leader for a while and will soon be the GOP Minority Whip–respectively the number one and number two positions within the party.”
Think Progress » CNN: Bush Is ‘Very Seriously’ Considering Sending More Troops To Iraq 2006
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