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  • verb archaic Second-person singular past form of become

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Examples

  • We beseech You, O Lord and Saviour, that, as in Your mercy to him You becamest man, so now You wouldest hasten the time, and admit him to Your presence above.

    Archive 2007-04-01 Heidi Hess Saxton 2007

  • We beseech You, O Lord and Saviour, that, as in Your mercy to him You becamest man, so now You wouldest hasten the time, and admit him to Your presence above.

    Eternal Light Shine Upon Him... Heidi Hess Saxton 2007

  • With this she sprinkled her husband saying, “By virtue of the dread words I have spoken, if thou becamest thus by my spells, come forth out of that form into shine own former form.”

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • For thy people Israel didst thou make thine own people for ever; and thou, LORD, becamest their God.

    Probably Just One Of Those Funny Coincidences 2006

  • For thy people Israel didst thou make thine own people for ever; and thou, LORD, becamest their God.

    Villaraigosa And Nunez Cut And Run - Video Report 2006

  • The young Gentleman, is the Sonne to Landolfo di Procida, the onely Brother to Lord John di Procida, by whose meanes thou becamest Lord and King of this Countrey.

    The Decameron 2004

  • How becamest thou so madly incensed, as (without any torment inflicted on thee) to confesse an offence by thee never committed?

    The Decameron 2004

  • ¶ Now when I passed by thee, and looked upon thee, behold, thy time was the time of love; and I spread my skirt over thee, and covered thy nakedness: yea, I sware unto thee, and entered into a covenant with thee, saith the Lord GOD, and thou becamest mine.

    Ezekiel 16. 1999

  • For thy people Israel didst thou make thine own people for ever; and thou, LORD, becamest their God.

    1 Chronicles 17. 1999

  • After all, he heard these words from the Lord: 'I swore unto thee and entered into a covenant with thee, and thou becamest mine.

    The Gospel according to the Son Mailer, Norman 1997

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