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- verb archaic Second-person singular present simple form of
turn
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Examples
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Relying on the truce, which saves thy life, thou turnest boaster.
The Phoenissae 2008
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Relying on the truce, which saves thy life, thou turnest boaster.
The Phoenissae 2008
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Why turnest thou thy cheek away, and hast no welcome for my glad news?
Medea 2008
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I teach thee fishing and thou turnest astrologer and drawest me an unlucky lot.
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This is the same air that heard thee say it; and after all thou turnest round and hast been caught recasting thy letter to this effect, "I will no longer be my daughter's murderer."
Iphigenia at Aulis 2008
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This is the same air that heard thee say it; and after all thou turnest round and hast been caught recasting thy letter to this effect, "I will no longer be my daughter's murderer."
Iphigenia at Aulis 2008
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Why turnest thou thy cheek away, and hast no welcome for my glad news?
Medea 2008
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Thou turnest a dotard, and in the great knowledge thou possessest of other things, hast forgotten the knowledge best worth knowing — — that of the beautiful part of the creation.
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My answer is: Thou canst indeed turn aside thy purpose; but since the truth of providence is ever at hand to see that thou canst, and whether thou dost, and whither thou turnest thyself, thou canst not avoid the Divine foreknowledge, even as thou canst not escape the sight of a present spectator, although of thy free will thou turn thyself to various actions.
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Thou turnest man to destruction: again thou sayest, Come again, ye children of men.
The Terror Simmons, Dan 2007
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