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didst

American  
[didst] / dɪdst /

verb

Archaic.
  1. 2nd person singular simple past tense of do.


didst British  
/ dɪdst /

verb

  1. archaic a form of the past tense of do 1

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And they waxed wroth against the High Priestess and said, Didst thou not sware, even unto seven times, that thou wouldst not call a snap election?

From The New Yorker • Jun. 9, 2017

"Didst Thou give me this inescapable loneliness," he wrote, "so that it would be easier for me to give Thee all?"

From Time Magazine Archive

Aye, 'tis full time That thou perform thy charge, that thou observe 30 The sacred oath that thou, as Field-marshal, Didst swear upon the lightning's lurid edge, By God's most holy name.

From Vondel's Lucifer by Vondel, Joost van den

Didst ever hear of such a gallymawfrey of dolphins and whales, and prince's barges, and the roaring of cannon, and fire-works?

From Judith Shakespeare Her love affairs and other adventures by Black, William

Didst thou e'er think thy child so fair?

From The Isle of Palms and Other Poems by Wilson, John Lyde

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