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hadst

American  
[hadst] / hædst /
Also haddest

verb

Archaic.
  1. a 2nd person singular simple past tense of have.


hadst British  
/ hædst /

verb

  1. archaic (used with the pronoun thou) a singular form of the past tense (indicative mood) of have

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When thou hadst overcome the sharpness of death,

From BBC ● May 5, 2023

Jonson assures the dead playwright that his artistic reputation is secure, “though thou hadst small Latin and less Greek.”

From Washington Post ● Sep. 4, 2015

Thou hadst but one camel to look after and thou hast let it go astray?'

From The Life of Mohammad The Prophet of Allah by Etienne Dinet

Wherever thou hadst gone, I would have chosen, my husband!

From A Pilgrim Maid A Story of Plymouth Colony in 1620 by Marion Ames Taggart

Thou art deadly pale! why look so deadly Pale, as if in death thou hadst been sleeping?”

From Servian Popular Poetry by John Bowring

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