thou
pronoun
the second person singular subject pronoun, equivalent to modern you (used to denote the person or thing addressed).
thous
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pluralof thou.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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An unpublished short story by Charlotte Brontë featuring flogging and embezzling, as well as a poem stuffed with thees and thous, have been discovered inside a book owned by the novelist’s mother.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 12, 2015
This is precisely the sort of diction that Tagore chose for the English Gitanjali, which, with its thees and thous, has so tried our patience.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 8, 2011
Well, first you would change the thees, the thous, the thys and the thines.
From Time Magazine Archive
No thees or thous in a streamlined Shakespeare Suppose you wanted to modernize Shakespeare, pull him up by his Elizabethan pantoffles and bring his 37 plays into our more streamlined age.
From Time Magazine Archive
For neither can Diana free the chaste Hippolytus from infernal darkness; nor is Theseus able to break off the Lethaean fetters from his dear Piri thous.
From The Works of Horace by Horace
