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  • verb Obsolete spelling of thank.

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Examples

  • I woulde say which means I will say thanke you for your continued or nascent interest in yours truly!

    Buzzine » Chip Pope and R.O. Manse Interview 2009

  • Was for this child, and God they thanke and herye.

    The Canterbury Tales 2006

  • So nowe Y haue bought manye a beggare, who Y do feede at my cost, and eftimes Y do commaunde them to thanke and prayse me so that Y feele lyk a seynte – but Y kan yet swyve and drynke depe of wyn and snorte the poudre of cockayne, the whiche no Seyntez do.

    Data Preservation/File Formats 2006

  • So nowe Y haue bought manye a beggare, who Y do feede at my cost, and eftimes Y do commaunde them to thanke and prayse me so that Y feele lyk a seynte – but Y kan yet swyve and drynke depe of wyn and snorte the poudre of cockayne, the whiche no Seyntez do.

    Parys! 2006

  • If you mislike his course in the case, beware of him hereafter, yet thanke him because it is no worse.

    The Decameron 2004

  • But my heart will not suffer me, I never was the daughter of such a mother, as had so much as a thought of such matters: no, I thanke our blessed Ladie, and S. Friswid for it: and yet thou returnest home againe, when thou shouldst be at Worke.

    The Decameron 2004

  • I thanke you Wife now I see the reason, why you kept us so long from comming into this roome: let mee die, if I beare this wrong at your hands.

    The Decameron 2004

  • I thanke the well-pleased Fates, S. Bennet, your Father-hood, and my kinde Wife, and will remember all your loves to me for ever.

    The Decameron 2004

  • Whereto Master Chappelet answered; I thanke you Father for your good motion, and sorry should I be, if my friends did bury me any where else, because you have promised to pray to God for me; and beside, I have alwayes carried a religious devotion to your Order.

    The Decameron 2004

  • Cobler bee indiscreet, that hee meddle no more with any matters of mine, yet I ought, in courtesie, to thanke him for that which hee did.

    The Decameron 2004

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