Definitions

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  • verb archaic Second-person singular simple present form of run.

Etymologies

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From run +‎ -est, the archaic second-person singular tense suffix.

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Examples

  • So he asked of him, “Wherefore runnest thou in such eagerness and whither dost thou press?”

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Helped write a section of Shearer's, but wouldn't really try to claim it was anything other than your runnest-of-the-millest blandathon (though no creosote involved ...)

    Book Review: Frank Lampard: The Biography 2006

  • When thou goest, thy steps shall not be straitened; and when thou runnest, thou shalt not stumble.

    Villaraigosa And Nunez Cut And Run - Video Report 2006

  • When thou goest, thy steps shall not be straitened; and when thou runnest, thou shalt not stumble.

    Probably Just One Of Those Funny Coincidences 2006

  • I've a few coconauts fer thee to fire at yonder City Hall as a salute fer their Declaration of Fools, if thou runnest low on thine cannonballs.

    NC'S under fire: Sarno leads the charge 2006

  • Thou runnest on with thy cursed nonsensical reformado rote, of dying, dying, dying! and, having once got the word by the end, canst not help foisting it in at every period!

    Clarissa Harlowe 2006

  • If by these flatteries and idle follies, thou hopest to comfort or pacifie me, thou runnest quite by as from thy reckoning; for I shall never imagine my selfe halfe satisfied, untill in the presence of my parents, friends, and neighbours, I have revealed thy base behaviour.

    The Decameron 2004

  • ‘And if thou runnest away who will say it is not my fault?’

    Kim 2003

  • When thou goest, thy steps shall not be straitened; and when thou runnest, thou shalt not stumble.

    Proverbs 4. 1999

  • "Witch, thou runnest fair risk of suffering my wrath,"

    Blue Adept Anthony, Piers 1981

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