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  • verb archaic Second-person singular present simple form of live

Etymologies

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live + -est

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Examples

  • Yet observe how mildly Christ tells her of it; he doth not call her strumpet, but tells her, He with whom thou livest is not thy husband: and then leaves it to her own conscience to say the rest.

    Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John) 1721

  • To be the "livest" of them was as much his ambition now as it had been to excel at making money, at playing golf, at motor-driving, at oratory, at climbing to the McKelvey set.

    Babbitt Sinclair Lewis 1918

  • Virginia had grown to be the "livest" town, for its age and population, that America had ever produced.

    Roughing It Mark Twain 1872

  • Virginia had grown to be the "livest" town, for its age and population, that America had ever produced.

    Roughing It, Part 5. Mark Twain 1872

  • Virginia had grown to be the "livest" town, for its age and population, that America had ever produced.

    Roughing It 1871

  • If you say the word you can be appointed to the livest committee —

    THEFT 2010

  • And we know that a certain percentage of them, the livest and most daring, will fall into the well.

    Chapter 16 2010

  • I insisted on travelling or loafing with the livest, keenest men, and it was just these live, keen ones that did most of the drinking.

    Chapter 21 2010

  • Virginia City, he observed, had grown to be the ‘livest’ town, for its age and population, that America had ever produced.

    LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY JR. ROY MORRIS 2010

  • Virginia City, Nevada, was “the livest town that America had ever produced,” Mark Twain bragged, adding that the city “afforded me the most vigorous enjoyment of life I had ever experienced.”

    LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY JR. ROY MORRIS 2010

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