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- conjunction Obsolete spelling of
than . - preposition Obsolete spelling of
than .
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Examples
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And "thanne" we are carried a hundred miles away, among entirely different beings, and frequently we hear no more of the first ones.
A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance Jean Jules Jusserand
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Using Chaucer's spelling this time: "No lenger thanne after Deeth they soughte" -- because, of course, the drunks have found him, though they're too dim to realize it.
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Natheles it befallethe often tyme, that the gode dyamande losethe his vertue, be synne and for incontynence of him, that berethe it: and thanne it is nedfulle to make it to recoveren his vertue azen, or elle it is of litille value.
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And thanne the prelate zevethe him sum maner frute, to the nombre of 9, in a platere of sylver, with peres or apples or other manere frute.
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And the most drede is, that God wole taken vengeance thanne, of that men han mys don azen his wille.
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And thanne comen men in returnynge to an yle, that is clept Casson: and that yle hathe wel 60 jorrneyes in lengthe, and more than 50 in brede.
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And whan the sonne is in the signe of Virgo, thanne begynnethe the ryvere for to wane and to decrece lytyl and lytylle; so that whan the sonne is entred into the signe of Libra, thanne thei entren betwene theise ryveres.
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And thanne thei schullen dyggen and mynen so strongly, tille that thei fynden the zates, that Kyng
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And thanne wolde hem thinken gretter delyt, than thei hadden before.
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And thanne thei seyn, that he is ravissht in to another world where he is a grettre lord, than he was here.
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