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

Etymologies

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care + -est

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Examples

  • Laws eternal yet carest for the falling of the feather from the Sparrow's Wing.

    Introduction 2008

  • Laws eternal yet carest for the falling of the feather from the Sparrow's

    Introduction 2008

  • Peter came rushing down and cried, “Master, carest thou not that we perish” Mark 4:38.

    FROM THE CROSS TO PENTECOST T. D. JAKES 2010

  • Richard Polwhele's "Unsexed Females," where he asks us to picture an "unsex'd" woman's body: "Scarce by a gossamery film carest,/Sport [s], in full view, the meretricious breast;" he then guides us to undress the woman farther, to "Loose the chaste cincture, where the graces shone,/And languish'd all the Loves, the ambrosial zone."

    'Pleasure is now, and ought to be, your business': Stealing Sexuality in Jane Austen's _Juvenilia_ 2006

  • 'Tis this that filleth me with anxious thought whether thou, O king, seated on the sky, thy heavenly throne, carest at all that my city is destroyed, a prey to the furious fiery blast.

    The Trojan Women 2008

  • Nay, wring not thy hands; I will believe thou carest not for him — believe anything rather than see thee look so wretchedly miserable.

    The Talisman 2008

  • 'Tis this that filleth me with anxious thought whether thou, O king, seated on the sky, thy heavenly throne, carest at all that my city is destroyed, a prey to the furious fiery blast.

    The Trojan Women 2008

  • And when they were come, they say unto him, Master, we know that thou art true, and carest for no man: for thou regardest not the person of men, but teachest the way of God in truth: Is it lawful to give tribute to

    The Dor�� Gallery of Bible Illustrations 2008

  • All these things considered, and contrasted with thy artful silence on the subject of this grace-saying Nereid of thine, I must beg thee to be more explicit upon that subject in thy next, unless thou wouldst have me form the conclusion that thou thinkest more of her than thou carest to talk of.

    Redgauntlet 2008

  • And they sent out unto him their disciples with the Herodians, saying, Master, we know that thou art true, and teachest the way of God in truth, neither carest thou for any man: for thou regardest not the person of men.

    Villaraigosa And Nunez Cut And Run - Video Report 2006

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