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dost

American  
[duhst] / dʌst /
Also doest

verb

Archaic.
  1. second person singular present indicative of do.


dost British  
/ dʌst /

verb

  1. archaic a singular form of the present tense (indicative mood) of do 1

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POLONIUS: If thou dost insist upon thy wretched vision then let me invest your time; be true to thy work and speak to me through the reason of the null and alternate hypotheses.

From Textbooks ● Mar. 27, 2020

Like the bystanders in the Gospel of John, I’m left asking: “How long dost thou make us to doubt? If thou be the Christ, tell us plainly.”

From Washington Post ● Feb. 21, 2017

Why dost no man say ‘Juliet and Romeo?’

From New York Times ● Apr. 21, 2016

Banquo gazes at his betrayer not with zombielike menace but with quiet reproach, belying Macbeth’s subsequent claim that “thou hast no speculation in those eyes/ Which thou dost glare with.”

From Slate ● Dec. 4, 2015

“Hope art thou true, or dost thou flatter me?”

From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein

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