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

Etymologies

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dare + -est

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Examples

  • That answer came easily enough: it's some colloquial form of "darest" - "dares" - as in "Nobody dares blame this man."

    TIME.com: Top Stories 2010

  • Let's add another sacred entitlement that darest never get reformed or reigned in because social security, medicare, and medicaid aren't bankrupting us fast enough!

    Democrats planning 1,000 health care reform events 2009

  • Who darest challenge their pro market driven coven ?

    Cartoon: Martin Rowson on George Osborne's bright, progressive new dawn 2011

  • “In what is he holier than I am?” said the Grand Master. — “Hermit, prophet, madman — say, if thou darest, in what thou excellest me?”

    The Talisman 2008

  • He then fixed his eyes on the stranger, and said, in a menacing tone, “I think thou darest not betray me or deceive me?”

    The Monastery 2008

  • Do I not know, thou filthy weaver of rotten worsted, that thou durst no more cross the threshold of thy own door, if thy wife heard of thy making such a boast, than thou darest cross naked weapons with a boy of twelve years old, who has drawn a sword for the first time of his life?

    The Fair Maid of Perth 2008

  • Believe it, and record it, if thou darest, in thy book, that Alexius

    Count Robert of Paris 2008

  • Every sort of woe betide thee, if with gurgling trill thou darest — but, as says the text: Let be!

    Peer Gynt 2008

  • Every sort of woe betide thee, if with gurgling trill thou darest — but, as says the text: Let be!

    Peer Gynt 2008

  • “And I will break thy young pate,” said Adam, “if thou darest to lift a finger to me.”

    The Abbot 2008

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