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
Ye are fallen, our lords, by what token? we wist that ye should not fall.
From Poems & Ballads (First Series) by Swinburne, Algernon Charles
Rather I wist not to have any hand in their punishment for a deed which, lawless though it be, still had the sorest provoking.”
From Cedric, the Forester by Marshall, Bernard Gay
My lady Prioressë, by your leave, So that I wist I shouldë you not grieve, I wouldë deemen that ye tellen should A talë next, if so were that ye would.
From Chaucer and His England by Coulton, G. G.
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
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