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- verb archaic Second-person singular simple present form of
lose - adjective Common misspelling of
loosest
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Examples
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βHe who losest his life shall find it,β was one thing she remembered the boy had said, and oh Lordy, did Treble Ann want something found, maybe just something nice for her mama, who was a good woman no matter what anybody said.
Good Country. People. Heather Fowler 2011
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As in, "That ninja-star Hanukkah cake is so tragic, it isn't a loser; it's a losest."
Chappy Chanukah 2009
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[5800] In taking a dowry thou losest thy liberty, dos intrat, libertas exit, hazardest thine estate.
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Thy barbarous reflection, that thou losest her not by thy own fault, is never to be forgiven.
Clarissa Harlowe 2006
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For thou losest the opportunity of doing something else when thou hast such thoughts as these, What is such a person doing, and why, and what is he saying, and what is he thinking of, and what is he contriving, and whatever else of the kind makes us wander away from the observation of our own ruling power.
The Meditations 2004
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Thou owest men nothing, yet payest out to them as if in debt to thy creature, and when thou dost cancel debts thou losest nothing thereby.
Confessions and Enchiridion, newly translated and edited by Albert C. Outler 345-430 1955
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"He who losest his life shall find it," he said simply and he was so sincere, so genuine and earnest that Mrs. Hopewell would not for the world have smiled.
AGoodManIsHardToFindAndOtherStories O'Connor, Flannery 1955
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How is it, therefore, that even thou, suffering thyself to be overpowered by passion and wrath losest thy reason? '
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli
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Have this thought ever present with thee, when thou losest any outward thing, what thou gainest in its stead; and if this be the more precious, say not, I have suffered loss.
The Golden Sayings of Epictetus circa 55-135 AD Epictetus
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How is it, therefore, that even thou, suffering thyself to be overpowered by passion and wrath losest thy reason? '
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Translated into English Prose Adi Parva Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli
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