wist
Americanverb
verb
Example Sentences
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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
Thy prayers shall be luminous; they shall light thy face like the face of Moses when he wist not that it shone.
From Thoughts for the Quiet Hour by Various
He did sae; and about midnight, ere ever he wist, the dog set up a howl close beside him.
From The Shepherd's Calendar Volume I (of II) by Hogg, James
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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