- past tense form of speak.
spake
Americanverb
verb
Example Sentences
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Thus spake one of the world’s most powerful men this week, after he gained more power still.
From Washington Post • Apr. 6, 2022
Thus spake Martin Luther King Jr. at the end of the Selma to Montgomery voting rights march.
From Seattle Times • May 31, 2020
Thus spake Kanye West to his wife, Kim Kardashian West, and, via the bully pulpit of “Keeping Up With the Kardashians,” to all of us.
From New York Times • Dec. 19, 2018
"When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child" runs Corinthians 13:11.
From The Guardian • Oct. 3, 2010
They spake to one another in a tongue Aina had not heard in long years; and I could tell that they related stories of places they had been as children.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson
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