mote
noun
a small particle or speck, especially of dust.
moste
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past tense formof mote.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
Example Sentences
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Round Continent, they wrote, “produces the moste dear skins,” while the “Round and Long Continents are the best history and story righting in the world, and best artests.”
From Slate ● May 28, 2015
The Renoumed Wryters of ech Countrey will place me amongs the ranke of the noblest Dames, where thou shalt be depressed, and throwne downe amonges the Heapes of moste vnkynde.
From The Palace of Pleasure Volume 3 by William Painter
Even in Piers Plowman we read: “For these aren men on this molde that moste harm worcheth, To the pore peple that parcel-mele buyggen Thei rychen thorow regraterye.”
From Curious Punishments of Bygone Days by Alice Morse Earle
He is a cruell beaste, when he is wilde, and falleth on his owne feete from moste highe places: and vneth is hurte therewith.
From The Curiosities of Heraldry by Mark Antony Lower
I take a deep interest in moste awl the animils, and particularly in mudturkles, and i dew hope that the Legislature in their wisdum won’t pass a law “prohibiting enny more mudturkles.”
From The Complete Works of Josh Billings by Henry W. Shaw
