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

Etymologies

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lead + -est

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Examples

  • Give ear, O Thou that rulest Israel: Thou that leadest Joseph like a sheep.

    Advent 2: bls 2008

  • Give ear, O Thou that rulest Israel: Thou that leadest Joseph like a sheep.

    Archive 2008-12-01 bls 2008

  • O glorious King of martyr hosts, thou crown that each confessor boasts, who leadest to celestial day the saints who cast earth's joys away.

    September 9: Constance and her Companions, Martyrs bls 2008

  • O glorious King of martyr hosts, thou crown that each confessor boasts, who leadest to celestial day the saints who cast earth's joys away.

    Archive 2008-09-01 bls 2008

  • “I follow thee” said Hereward, stung with the insinuation of cowardice; “but if thou leadest me into a snare, thy free talk shall not save thy bones, if a thousand of thy complexion, from earth or hell, were standing ready to back thee.”

    Count Robert of Paris 2008

  • Chapter 80 1. Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, thou that leadest Joseph like a flock; thou that dwellest between the cherubims, shine forth.

    Probably Just One Of Those Funny Coincidences 2006

  • Chapter 80 1. Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, thou that leadest Joseph like a flock; thou that dwellest between the cherubims, shine forth.

    Villaraigosa And Nunez Cut And Run - Video Report 2006

  • ‘So shall thy body be, young man, if thou leadest me astray in this.’

    Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004

  • Sir Meliagrance: Slay not my noble knights, and I will go with thee upon this covenant, that thou save them, and suffer them not to be no more hurt, with this, that they be led with me wheresomever thou leadest me, for I will rather slay myself than I will go with thee, unless that these my noble knights may be in my presence.

    Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table 2003

  • “Then I do not desire to have thee for godfather,” said the man; “thou deceivest men and leadest them astray.”

    Household Tales 2003

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