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- verb archaic Second-person singular simple present indicative of
need - verb archaic Second-person singular simple present subjunctive of
need
Etymologies
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Examples
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Also he needst to step down .. better yet disappear.
Jenny Sanford on her husband: 'The ball is in his court' 2009
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My companions will tell thee what thou needst to know, when the time is fitting and proper. 4 He trotted to a corner of the clearing, peered back into the leaves and mud and darkness.
Virginity Sydney Kilgore 2010
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I tried the Elegies one day, but he, because he heard me say: "What needst thou have more covering than a man?"
Edgell Rickword, "Trench Poets" Victoria Janssen 2010
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"Thou shalt not kill but needst not strive, officiously, to keep alive."
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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McJoke needst o go back to film school or get a job directing commercials
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Rhine, with all their fame, though abundant, needst thou envy, thou pure island stream! — and far less yon turbid river of old, not modern renown, gurgling beneath the walls of what was once proud
Lavengro 2004
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"Nor needst thou," said Don Quixote, "but I cannot conceive or make out how it is that, the fear of God being the beginning of wisdom, thou, who art more afraid of a lizard than of him, knowest so much."
Don Quixote 2002
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"Then thou needst have no uneasiness, my friend," said Don
Don Quixote 2002
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Thou needst say no more to him, nor will I say anything more to thee, save to tell thee to bear in mind that this Second
Don Quixote 2002
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"An thou needst suit order, I can play a game for that," she said.
Phaze Doubt Anthony, Piers 1990
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