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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of wyte.

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Examples

  • And wyted him deal of their woes; nor then might he 1150

    The Tale of Beowulf Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats Anonymous

  • 'I did wyte then!' she cried 'I wyted till near eight before I got your old telegraph!

    Victorian Short Stories of Troubled Marriages Rudyard Kipling 1900

  • ` ` That's the Reiver's mother, '' said one of the Elliots; ` ` she's ten times waur than himself, and is wyted for muckle of the ill he does about the country. ''

    The Black Dwarf 1898

  • First I had to herd the sheep and take them to the best grass, and whiles they strayed and were wearisome to me, and I came home with divers missing, and then would I be wyted or even whipped for what was no fault of mine.

    The Sundering Flood William Morris 1865

  • "That's the Reiver's mother," said one of the Elliots; "she's ten times waur than himsell, and is wyted for muckle of the ill he does about the country."

    The Black Dwarf Walter Scott 1801

  • Man it is difent he his throughin in to the varitey of Business & for gets for the time that they are Such a thing as love, or that he has a loving wife at home wayting anxiously for him to come & when he dos come he has no tender word of affection for the one who has wyted So pacately for him were She Expected to See a smile She Sees a frown he comes in takes of his hat Sets down & is Silent has no word of greeting for his wife what is the feelings of that wife no one has any Idea but those who has Experienced Such treetment. bouth husband & wife should Strive to make the home circle bright & Cheerful & it depends in a greate measure apon the wife to make it so.

    Augusta County: David H. Evans to Mary Anna Sibert, September 15, 1868 David H. Evans 1868

  • “That’s the Reiver’s mother,” said one of the Elliots; “she’s ten times waur than himsell, and is wyted for muckle of the ill he does about the country.”

    The Black Dwarf 2004

  • "S'y, we never wyted to hear no more, but hyked awye hot foot.

    A Deal in Wheat and Other Stories of the New and Old West Frank Norris 1886

  • Ere she could explain, "Hold your tongue, girl," said Catherine; "Muriel bade him sat down, and I knew not that, and wyted on him; and he was going and leaving his malison on us, root and branch.

    The Cloister and the Hearth Charles Reade 1849

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