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
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 Bernard Gay Marshall
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 James Hogg
I wist not what the present generation is coming to.
From Contemporary One-Act Plays by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie
I wist not well what this man meant, He cried so thick there indeed, But he that lacked money, might not speed.
From A History of the Cries of London Ancient and Modern by Charles Hindley
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