Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Yielded; surrendered; submissive.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- past participle Yielded.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb obsolete past participle of
yield .
Etymologies
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Examples
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There made the peple of Ebron sacrifice to oure Lord: and ther thei yolden up here avowes: and there spak God first to Samuelle, and schewed him the mutacioun of ordre of presthode, and the misterie of the sacrement.
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Well, as to that, said Launcelot, advise you well, for ye may choose whether ye will die or live, for an ye be yolden it shall be unto Sir Kay.
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That is truth, said King Mark, and else I had not been here, for my lord, Sir Launcelot, brought me hither through his fine force, and to him am I yolden to as recreant.
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Cross, ye shall not escape me tofore ye have yolden the custom of this castle.
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There made the peple of Ebron sacrifice to oure Lord: and ther thei yolden up here avowes: and there spak God first to Samuelle, and schewed him the mutacioun of ordre of presthode, and the misterie of the sacrement.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Marhaus died through false leeches; and yet was he never yolden to me.
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Nay, said Sir Meliagrance, I will never arise until ye take me as yolden and recreant.
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I am deemed unto, I should never have been yolden.
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Then he took her by the bridle and said: By the Holy Cross, ye shall not escape me tofore ye have yolden the custom of this castle.
Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series) Thomas Malory Jean Froissart
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Then he took her by the bridle and said: By the Holy Cross, ye shall not escape me tofore ye have yolden custom of this castle.
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