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

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wish +‎ -est

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Examples

  • “And now, foolish wench, what wishest thou?” said Richard, turning slowly and half reluctantly round to his royal suppliant.

    The Talisman 2008

  • He rejoined, I suspect that to day thou art for an assignation with some woman, else thou hadst taken me with thee; yet am I the right man to take, one who could aid thee to the end thou wishest.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Since thou knowest all this, as soon as the first third533 of the coming night is over, go to the offertory-chest and take thence what thou wishest and willest.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Tell me what thou wishest and I will accomplish thy need, as ruth for thee hath got hold upon my heart.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Yea, for al is right, condicciouns are perfect for Busynesse, for thou hast sheeldes thou wishest to selle in exchaunge for merchaundise thou hast bought in Flaundres.

    Some Awesome Things 2007

  • Thou lovest God's children and saints in the meantime, hatest them not, persecutest them not, but rather wishest thyself a true professor, to be as they are, as thou thyself hast been heretofore; which is an evident token thou art in no such desperate case.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • But if thou wishest to impose a law of staying and departing on her whom thou hast of thine own accord chosen for thy mistress, art thou not acting wrongfully, art thou not embittering by impatience a lot which thou canst not alter?

    Consolation of Philosophy 2007

  • Yea, for al is right, condicciouns are perfect for Busynesse, for thou hast sheeldes thou wishest to selle in exchaunge for merchaundise thou hast bought in Flaundres.

    Archive 2007-11-01 2007

  • Therefore will I not acquit thee yet, O credulous, fluttering, throbbing mischief! that art so ready to believe what thou wishest!

    Pamela 2006

  • So much of what can be “explained” by his being “evil” can be explained equally well by the fact that he loved her and really wanted her wishest to be carried out.

    Michael Schiavo, Everyman 2005

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