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

Etymologies

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show + -est

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  • No! not any longer, old friend; for my soul is convinced by the tokens thou showest.

    Electra 2008

  • Furthermore I desire that of thy favour thou wilt grant him his request without stay or delay; for it is my own, and all graciousness thou showest him, I take for myself; but beware of crossing me in this, for know, O King

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • To Thee be praise, O Thou who showest unremitting grace, viii.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • To Thee be praise, O Thou who showest unremitting grace;

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Well, honest Murdoch, I take it on me to say, thou deservest to be upper-warden, since thou showest thyself twenty times better acquainted with the way of victualling honest gentlemen that are under misfortune, than thy principal.

    A Legend of Montrose 2008

  • Then she turned to the broker and said to him, O thou refuse of brokers, meseemeth thou art mad, in that thou showest me this hour past, first to a pair of greybeards, in each of whom are two faults, and then thou proferrest me to my lord

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • No! not any longer, old friend; for my soul is convinced by the tokens thou showest.

    Electra 2008

  • Whereupon said they to him, Indeed, thou humblest thyself to us passing measure, O our brother, and we marvel at the excess of the affection thou showest us.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Alas! but, good Lord, thou showest such clemency to Thy creatures; Thou pardonest them twice or three times; I have sinned but once, and am not to be forgiven!

    A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

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