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- verb archaic Second-person singular present simple form of
ought
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Examples
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Would to God I could convince thee as easily where thou oughtest to seek, and art sure to find, consolation, as
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So the Angel said: thy phantasy has imposed upon me & thou oughtest to be ashamed.
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So the Angel said: thy phantasy has imposed upon me & thou oughtest to be ashamed.
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Quicquid sibi imperavit animus obtinuit (as [3414] Seneca saith) nulli tam feri affectus, ut non disciplina perdomentur, whatsoever the will desires, she may command: no such cruel affections, but by discipline they may be tamed; voluntarily thou wilt not do this or that, which thou oughtest to do, or refrain, &c., but when thou art lashed like
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Dictamen applies it to him, and dictates this or the like: Regulus, thou wouldst not another man should falsify his oath, or break promise with thee: conscience concludes, therefore, Regulus, thou dost well to perform thy promise, and oughtest to keep thine oath.
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This, Reader, is the entertainment of those who let loose their own thoughts, and follow them in writing; which thou oughtest not to envy them, since they afford thee an opportunity of the like diversion, if thou wilt make use of thy own thoughts in reading.
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Say not thou, it is through the Lord that I fell away; for thou oughtest not to do the thing that he hateth.
Clarissa Harlowe 2006
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But yet there is enough in thy aspirations to strike my mind with a resemblance of thee and the lady to the figures on the wretched monument; for thou oughtest to remember, that, prepared as she may be to mount to her native skies, it is impossible for her to draw after her a heavy fellow who has so much to repent of as thou hast.
Clarissa Harlowe 2006
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Thou oughtest to have known that free-livers, like ministers of state, never part with a power put into their hands, without an equivalent of twice the value.
Clarissa Harlowe 2006
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To prostitute the characters of persons of honour of thy own family — and all to delude a poor creature, whom thou oughtest — But why talk I to thee?
Clarissa Harlowe 2006
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