should

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  1. auxiliary verb Used to express obligation or duty: You should send her a note.
  2. auxiliary verb Used to express probability or expectation: They should arrive at noon.
  3. auxiliary verb Used to express conditionality or contingency: If she should fall, then so would I.

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  • The words Mary Armat had spoken to me in Burmese should have completely engrossed my every thought, but they did not. —  John Gayther's Garden and the Stories Told Therein
  • L'Alcoran and the Alcoran are therefore equally incorrect; for the word in French should be Le Coran_; in English the Koran_; therefore Voltaire was correct. —  An Account of Timbuctoo and Housa Territories in the Interior of Africa
  • He must know that--should, at any rate, have known it. —  The Bertrams
  • In an English or American book we should introduce the French word at once, which would induce the reader to inquire into the differences that exist between the minor territorial divisions, of his own country, and those of the country of which he is reading. —  Recollections of Europe
  • He resolved mentally, however, that his progress in Spanish should be exceedingly small; and that many months should elapse, before he could possibly receive even rudimentary instruction in religious matters The life in the barracks at Arica resembled, pretty closely, that which they had led so long on board ship. —  Under Drake's Flag A Tale of the Spanish Main
 

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