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

Etymologies

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hear + -est

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Examples

  • O my brother, fear not, nor grieve! for the host whose approach thou hearest is the host of Allah and His Angels, whom He hath sent to serve as witnesses to your marriage.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • ‘The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh.’

    The Curse of the Wendigo William James Henry 2010

  • ‘The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh.’

    The Curse of the Wendigo William James Henry 2010

  • "Lalo, " she said, 'sister of Echo whose voice, alas, thou hearest repeating thee in all hollow places.

    La insistencia de Jürgen Fauth 2010

  • ‘The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh.’

    The Curse of the Wendigo William James Henry 2010

  • And David said to Saul, Wherefore hearest thou men's words, saying,

    The Dor�� Gallery of Bible Illustrations 2008

  • Father, thou hearest thy children's lamentation; say, shall I e'er, as warrior dight, avenge thy slaughter?

    The Suppliants 2008

  • Thou hearest their torches are blazing, and art fired with the hope that the Achaeans are flying, and wouldst lead on our troops across the trenches in the calm still night.

    Rhesus 2008

  • Thou hearest their torches are blazing, and art fired with the hope that the Achaeans are flying, and wouldst lead on our troops across the trenches in the calm still night.

    Rhesus 2008

  • And I knew that thou hearest me always: but because of the people which stand by I said it, that they may believe that thou hast sent me.

    The Dor�� Gallery of Bible Illustrations 2008

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