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- verb archaic Second-person singular simple present form of
yield .
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Examples
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A learned man without works is a bee without honey: -- Tell that harsh and ungenerous hornet: As thou yieldest no honey, wound not with thy sting.
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Since thou art bold, and yieldest not to my speech, but thus answerest me so as to grieve my mind, thou wilt rather inflame me to urge thy death.
The Tragedies of Euripides, Volume I. 480? BC-406 BC Euripides
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But what great thing is it that thou, who art dust and nothingness, yieldest thyself to man for Gods sake, when I, the Almighty and the Most High, who created all things out of nothing, subjected Myself to man for thy sake?
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And saith: 'These limbs thou yieldest to my prayer;
Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Third series John Addington Symonds 1866
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And saith: 'These limbs thou yieldest to my prayer;
Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete Series I, II, and III John Addington Symonds 1866
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Thou indeed both art bold, and yieldest nought to thy bitter calamities, but art over free in thy language.
Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound and the Seven Against Thebes 525 BC-456 BC Aeschylus 1840
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Whosoever thou art, be not surprised if thou yieldest and consentest to any lusts whatsoever, since thou either supposest them to be good for fulfilling libidinous excess, or thou undoubtedly seest them now to be so evil, that yet by yielding to them thou consentest, and followest whither they lead, and dost perpetrate those things which they wickedly suggest; thou art entirely carnal, whosoever thou art that dost correspond with this description -- thou art totally carnal.
The Works of James Arminius, Vol. 2 1560-1609 1956
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Odysseus with the same treacherous smile, gave him to drink of the same cup, and struck him with her wand in the same manner; but when she saw him standing, unchanged and unmoved, threatening her with drawn sword, she feared exceedingly, and falling at his feet spake thus in pitiful tones: "Who art thou, that thou yieldest not to the power of my drugs, which never mortal resisted before?
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Tempore]): "Whereas thou shouldst excel thy wife in virtue, since chastity is a virtue, thou yieldest to the first onslaught of lust, while thou wishest thy wife to be victorious."
Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province Aquinas Thomas
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Hast thou aught to say ere thou yieldest dominion to me? "
In the Days of Chivalry Evelyn Everett-Green 1894
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