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mayest

Also mayst

[mey-ist]

verb

Archaic.
  1. 2nd person singular present indicative of may.



mayest

/ ˈmeɪɪst /

verb

  1. a variant of mayst

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"Awaken, doomed city, that thou mayest save thyself," the prophet cries out in Zweig's play.

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Steinbeck translates it as thou mayest, and the question at hand is that God says to Cain, in some translations, you can triumph over sin, and some translations he says, you will triumph over sin.

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And this character in the book does a kind of deep dive into the actual word in Hebrew and comes up with this thou mayest.

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I think thou mayest choose a different life.

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What he ultimately concludes, she said, is “thou mayest triumph over sin, but it’s in the hands of the next generation; it’s a choice.”

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