thy

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Quoth he: "By thy size and knightly gear, by thy--thy yellow hair, methinks thou art Beltane, son of Beltane the Strong Verily, 'tis so that I am called.

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  1. adjective Used as a modifier before a noun.

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  • "This do, and thou shalt live"; nay, in stricter and more piercing sense, This be and thou shalt live: to show Mercy is nothing--thy soul must be full of mercy; to be pure in act is nothing--thou shalt be pure in heart also And with this further word of the unabolished law--"This if thou do not_, this if thou art not, thou shalt die 55. —  Our Fathers Have Told Us Part I. The Bible of Amiens
  • So Yesterday shall live again And the steel line along the Rhine Shall cuirass thee and all that's thine France lives--thy France--divine Lorraine! —  Lorraine A romance
  • Eros drew his sword, and Antony bared his breast, but instead of striking the sword into the vitals of his master, Eros plunged the blade into his own body, and fell at his master's feet At which Mark Antony exclaimed, "This was well done, Eros--thy heart would not permit thee to kill thy master, but thou hast set him an example!" —  Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 7 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Orators
  • Now they will shoot thee without doubt--thy life for his, and he was not worth his salt. —  Adventures in Many Lands
  • Tis thy natal ruler--thy birth planet Arb. —  The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 5 Poetry
 

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  1. Middle English, variant of thin, thine, from Old English thīn; see tu- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English thy, thi, a shortened form of thin, from Anglo-Saxon thin: see thine. The -n was dropped as being apparently a mere inflectional ending. Cf. my.
 

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