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I have said I am a Christian And dost thou think I have found thee--thee, my only son--to part with thee again so easily?

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  1. pronoun Used as the direct object of a verb.
  2. pronoun Used as the indirect object of a verb.
  3. pronoun Used as the object of a preposition.
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  • Is it not rather matter for thee--thee by thyself, beyond all priests that be? —  The White Rose of Langley A Story of the Olden Time
  • It will seek thee, my dear ELFONZO, it will find thee--thou canst not escape that lighted torch, which shall blot out from the remembrance of men a long train of prophecies which they have foretold against thee. —  The 30,000 Dollar Bequest and Other Stories
  • One of two things hath the son of crafty Saturn given thee: he has granted that thou shouldst be honoured by the sceptre above all; but valour hath he not given thee, which is the greatest strength. —  The Iliad of Homer (1873)
  • Dost thou see me shuddering convulsively before thee, and concealing from thee--" She sunk sobbing at my feet, and renewed her declaration with a solemn vow I declared to the now approaching forest-master, my determination to ask the hand of his daughter for the first day of the coming month. —  Peter Schlemihl
  • Child, you are mistaken, I am in great Necessity; for first I love thee-- desperately-- have I not damn'd my Soul already for thee, and wouldst thou be so wicked to refuse a little Consolation to my Body? —  The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume I
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  1. from Middle English theen, then, or without the infinitive suffix thee, the, from Anglo-Saxon theón, thión, getheón, be strong, thrive, = Old Saxon *thīhan, found only in the derived factitive thengian, complete, = Dutch gedijen, thrive, prosper, succeed, = Old High German gidīhan, Middle High German gedīhen, German gedeihen = Gothic (Moesogothic) gatheihan, increase, thrive; orig., as the old participial form Anglo-Saxon ge-thungen shows, with a nasal suppressed (as usual before h), Anglo-Saxon *thinhan; cf. Lithuanian tenku, tekti, have enough; Irish tocad, Welsh tynged, luck, fortune.
  2. A dial. variant of thy, or, as among the Friends, a perverted use of the obj. thee.
 

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