didst

American

[didst] / dɪdst /

verb

Archaic.

2nd person singular simple past tense of do.

didst British

/ dɪdst /

verb

archaic a form of the past tense of do 1

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For so thou didst ordain, when thou createdst me, saying,

From BBC • Sep. 19, 2022

For so thou didst ordain, when thou createdest me, saying,

From Washington Times • Apr. 16, 2021

POLONIUS: So, Horatio, what is it thou didst reveal through thy deliberations?

From Textbooks • Mar. 27, 2020

“And in their most unmitigable rage into a cloven pine, within which rift imprisoned he didst painfully—”

From The New Yorker • Jul. 8, 2019

Satan breaks the silence: If thou beest he; But O how fall'll! how chang’d From him, who in the happy Realms of Light Cloth’d with transcendent brightness didst out-shine Myriads though bright...

From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith

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