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

Etymologies

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want + -est

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Examples

  • These words should come from none but a champion doughty and bold: what wantest thou of justice?

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • “O my son,” replied he, “this is my buttery before thee” (and it was the store-room provided for the Commander of the Faithful); “so go in, and take whatso thou wilt, for there is over and above what thou wantest.”

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Prithee, why this burst of fury, these bloodshot eyes? who wrongs thee? what is it thou wantest?

    Iphigenia at Aulis 2008

  • Answered the Caliph, “Thou shalt have what thou wantest; but let search be made first in my palace and then in those of the Wazir and the Chief of the Sixty.”

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Prithee, why this burst of fury, these bloodshot eyes? who wrongs thee? what is it thou wantest?

    Iphigenia at Aulis 2008

  • And if thou canst be content, thou hast abundance, nihil est, nihil deest, thou hast little, thou wantest nothing.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • But what wantest thou, to expostulate the matter? or what hast thou not better than a rich man?

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Pretty creature, said she; and wantest thou thy good master to come, and quarrel with his sister on thy account? —

    Pamela 2006

  • And thou wantest to make a merit with the uncle, with a view to one of his nieces.

    Clarissa Harlowe 2006

  • If thou wantest my assistance in the latter, command me.

    Clarissa Harlowe 2006

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