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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An obsolete form jot.

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Examples

  • The 19 men and19 women volunteers had to determine whether pairs of nonsense words (lete and jete, loke and jote), when flashed on a screen, rhymed.

    Gray Matters 2008

  • The Woman, who knew well enough the Messenger (notwithstanding all his formall disguise) made answer: That the party expected, came not: but if hee had come, it was to no purpose; because her minde was now otherwise altred, albeit she changed not a jote from her amorous conclusion.

    The Decameron 2004

  • The amourous Friend to Helena, who stood by all this while, laughing at the Schollers hard usage, returned up againe with her to her Chamber, where they could not take a jote of rest, for flouting and scorning the betrayed Scholler, As for him poore man, hee was become like the Swanne, coldly chattering his teeth together, in a strange new kinde of harmony to him.

    The Decameron 2004

  • But she, not altring a jote from her former disposition, but rather farre more froward and tempestuous: delighted to vexe and crosse him, doing every thing quite contrary to the order appointed.

    The Decameron 2004

  • I walked quickly into El Que jote to see what was going on.

    Buried Alive, The Biography of Janis Joplin Friedman, Myra 1973

  • But the Spreit of veritie that bearis testimony of our Lord Jesus hes nott, nether can not, err; "for heavin and earth shall perishe or ane jote of it perishe."

    The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) John Knox

  • When they had reasoned together in this sort, they swore both earnestly, that neither of them stale or tooke away any jote of the meate, wherefore they concluded to search out the Theefe by all kind of meanes.

    The Golden Asse Lucius Apuleius

  • In all this menetyme, and quhill that ma Frensche men arryvit, thay ar not abill to pruif that we brak the Appointment in any jote, except that ane hoirnit capp was taikin of ane proud preistis heid, and cut in four quarteris, [905] becaus he said he wald weir [906] it in dispyte of the Congregatioun.

    The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) John Knox

  • Ati ynë në qiell Ati ynë në qiell, Emrin Tënd të shenjtë, Mbretëria jote, yt do të bëhet në tokë si në qiell.

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  • When they had reasoned together in this sort, they swore both earnestly, that neither of them stale or tooke away any jote of the meate, wherefore they concluded to search out the Theefe by all kind of meanes.

    The Golden Asse 1566

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