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

Etymologies

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view + -est

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Examples

  • Then for the place where; where, I mean, I did encounter that most obscene and preposterous event, that draweth from my snow-white pen the ebon-coloured ink, which here thou viewest, beholdest, surveyest, or seest.

    Act I. Scene I. Love’s Labour’s Lost 1914

  • “Look in thy glass, and tell the face thou viewest”

    Sonnet 3 1914

  • Be thou a kelpie, haunting the ford or ferry, in the starless night, mixing thy laughing yell with the howling of the storm and the roaring of the flood, as thou viewest the perils and miseries of man on the foundering horse, or in the tumbling boat!

    The Letters of Robert Burns Robert Burns 1777

  • Thy trophies! which thou viewest as not thine own;

    Paradise Lost John Milton 1641

  • Then for the place where; where, I mean, I did encounter that obscene and preposterous event, that draweth from my snow-white pen the ebon-coloured ink, which here thou viewest, beholdest, surveyest, or seest; but to the place where; it standeth north-north-east and by east from the west corner of thy curious - knotted garden: there did I see that low-spirited swain, that base minnow of thy mirth, '--

    Love's Labour's Lost 1594

  • Then for the place where; where, I mean, I did encounter that obscene and preposterous event, that draweth from my snow-white pen the ebon-coloured ink, which here thou viewest, beholdest, surveyest, or seest; but to the place where; it standeth north-north-east and by east from the west corner of thy curious - knotted garden: there did I see that low-spirited swain, that base minnow of thy mirth,’ —

    Love’s Labour ’s Lost 2004

  • "'Here,' I heard, 'thou viewest thy Mardi's Heaven.

    Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II (of 2) Herman Melville 1855

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