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- verb archaic Second-person singular simple present form of
count .
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At the very least, I'll give it a rent sometime. co-op would be awesome, mp will probably be some kind of countest, run. find and more.
GameSpot's News, Screenshots, Movies, Reviews, Previews, Downloads, and Features 2010
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Oh, woman! who countest pestilence thy friend when it is in league with love!
St. Cuthbert's Robert E. Knowles
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Thou art like a shepherd who is careless about the loss of his sheep through the rapacious crocodile; thou never countest [thy sheep].
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If any one in the market place speak ill of thy wife, thou makest ado without end and countest life not worth living: and can it be that disgracing thyself with thy future consort in the presence of the whole city, thou art pleased and lookest gay on the matter?
NPNF1-12. Saint Chrysostom: Homilies on the Epistles of Paul to the Corinthians Editor 1889
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But thou, if the body were distorted and maimed, wouldest say that his was a case for great lamentation; and seest thou his whole soul mutilated, yet countest him even happy?
NPNF1-12. Saint Chrysostom: Homilies on the Epistles of Paul to the Corinthians Editor 1889
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And thou by pardons and relics countest no let, [391]
A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 1 William Carew Hazlitt 1873
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How look a brother in the face and say, Thy right is wrong, eyes hast thou yet art blind, thine ears are stuffed and stopped, despite their length: and, oh, the foolishness thou countest faith!
An Introduction to the Study of Robert Browning's Poetry Hiram Corson 1869
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But oh, my friend! surely long ere now thou knowest that we were not false; surely the hour will yet dawn when I shall again hold thee to my heart; yea, surely, even if still thou countest me guilty, thou hast already found for me endless excuse and forgiveness.
Wilfrid Cumbermede George MacDonald 1864
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"Thou countest, then, that he which had been false to a thousand maids should be true to the one over?" saith Aunt _Joyce_, with a pitying smile.
Joyce Morrell's Harvest The Annals of Selwick Hall Emily Sarah Holt 1864
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I reckon thou countest not the scouring of thy floor among thine enjoyments.
Our Little Lady Six Hundred Years Ago Emily Sarah Holt 1864
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