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- verb archaic Second-person singular simple present form of
warn .
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Examples
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Nothing can be more injudicious; for thou, my friend, who preachest to me that all the world is born perverse, warnest me that thou art born such also, and that I must mistrust thee as I would a fox or a crocodile.
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Seest thou not that thou warnest me that I do not try without resolving to conquer?
Clarissa Harlowe 2006
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Eiðer of ow haueð his stunde to speokene. ne nis i {n} ckeR noðres tale to schunien in his time. þu warnest of wa. he telleð of wunne. muche neod is þ̵ me ow ba ȝeornliche hercni.
Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts Joseph Hall
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Thou warnest only those who fear their Lord in secret, and have established worship.
Three Translations of The Koran (Al-Qur'an) side by side Abdullah Yusuf Ali 1902
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P: Thou warnest only him who followeth the Reminder and feareth the
Three Translations of The Koran (Al-Qur'an) side by side Abdullah Yusuf Ali 1902
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Nor wast thou on the slope of Sinai when we called to Moses, but it is of the mercy of thy Lord that thou warnest a people, to whom no warner had come before thee, to the intent that they should reflect:
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"Oh! Raoul, Raoul! thanks! thou keepest thy promise, thou warnest me!"
The Vicomte de Bragelonne Or Ten Years Later being the completion of "The Three Musketeers" And "Twenty Years After" Alexandre Dumas p��re 1836
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"Oh! Raoul, Raoul! thanks! thou keepest thy promise, thou warnest me!"
The Man in the Iron Mask Alexandre Dumas p��re 1836
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"Lah, Miss," said the maid, "I warnest you must have been mainly frightened; you looks as pale as a ghost, pretty nigh.
The Corinna of England, and a Heroine in the Shade: a Modern Romance Anonymous 1809
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_Now is the accepted time, now is the day of salvation_, [199] and there is _a great day of thy wrath_, [200] which no man shall be able to stand in; and there are evil days before, and therefore thou warnest us and armest us, _Take unto you the whole armour of God, that you may be able to stand in the evil day_. [
Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions Together with Death's Duel John Donne 1601
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