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shouldst

American  
[shoodst, shootst] / ʃʊdst, ʃʊtst /
Also shouldest

verb

Archaic.
  1. 2nd person singular past tense of shall.


shouldst British  
/ ʃʊdst, ˈʃʊdɪst /

verb

  1. archaic a form of the past tense of shall

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John Donne, thou shouldst be living at this hour!

From The New Yorker ● Nov. 30, 2015

His epigraph from George Herbert perhaps speaks most adequately for him: "O that Thou shouldst give dust a tongue to crie to Thee."

From Time Magazine Archive

Thou shouldst be living at this hour: England hath need of thee .

From Time Magazine Archive

And the Preacher counsels: Be not over muck wicked . . . why shouldst thou die before thy time?

From Time Magazine Archive

“They shall carry thee far through the jungle, manling. But now go hence quickly with thy friends. Go and sleep, for the moon sets, and what follows it is not well that thou shouldst see.”

From "Inkheart" by Cornelia Funke

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