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  1. verb Past tense and past participle of think.
  2. noun The act or process of thinking; cogitation.
  3. noun A product of thinking. See Synonyms at idea.

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  • She gave a soft, musical laugh as if the thought were a pleasant one to dwell on, but Stanor was sensitive enough to realise that his own image played no part in her dreams. —  The Love Affairs of Pixie
  • Augustin's conversion owing to such a sort of consultation; but the thought is a great mistake, and very injurious to him, for his conversion was owing to a providential call, like that of St. Paul, from heaven.' —  The Superstitions of Witchcraft
  • Then the thought is there, ready for utterance. —  The Choice of Life
  • Such periods may embody in their literatures a large amount of thought,--thought which is conversant with the externality of things; but that of itself will not constitute a noble literature, however perfect the forms in which it may be embodied, and the general sense of the civilized world, independently of any theories of literature, will not regard such a literature as noble. —  An Introduction to the Study of Robert Browning's Poetry
  • This thought was the keynote of the Reformation. —  Christianity and Ethics A Handbook of Christian Ethics
 

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  1. Middle English, from Old English gethōht, thōht; see tong- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English thought, thouht, thoht, thoʒt, thuʒt, ithoʒt, from Anglo-Saxon gethōht, also theaht, getheaht = Old Saxon githāht, feminine, thinking, belief, = Dutch gedachte = Old High German *daht, Middle High German dāht, feminine, thought, Old High German gedāht (cf. Old High German anadāht, Middle High German andāht, German andacht, attention, devotion (= Gothic (Moesogothic) andathahts, attention), German bedacht, deliberation) = Icelandic thōtti, thōttr, thought, = Gothic (Moesogothic) thuhtus, thought (the above forms being more or less confused); with formative -t or -tu, from Anglo-Saxon thencan (preterit thōhte), etc., think: see think.
  2. Also thowt; dial. form of thoft; in part a corruption of thwart.
 

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