wist
Americanverb
verb
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We Are Young, too, is wistful for an era that was already full of wist.
From The Guardian ● May 29, 2013
They wist not of her, nor cared, being transferred to other hands, and yet they stood 'twixt her and the precipice.
From The Maid of Honour, Volume 2 (of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France by Lewis Wingfield
"But wist I of a woman bold, Who thrice my brow durst sign, I might regain my mortal mold, As fair a form as thine."
From The Land of Song, Book II For lower grammar grades by Various
A speck, a mist, a shape I wist!
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 105, August 19th 1893 by Various
To adapt Ko-Ko's celebrated song, he would say:— A boy may wear his hair in curls, or bear a pudding face, Some mothers, as you wist, that folly can't resist!
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 105, September 2nd, 1893 by Various
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