Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- pronoun Used to indicate the one or ones belonging to thee.
- adjective Used instead of thy before an initial vowel or h.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of thee; the original genitive of the pronoun thou.
- Of thee; belonging to thee. Compare
mine , 2. - Belonging or pertaining to thee: in this sense a possessive.
- Used attributively, with the force of an adjective: commonly preferred before a vowel to thy, and now used only in that situation.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- preposition A form of the possessive case of the pronoun
thou , now superseded in common discourse byyour , the possessive ofyou , but maintaining a place in solemn discourse, in poetry, and in the usual language of the Friends, or Quakers.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- determiner archaic Singular second person
prevocalic possessive determiner (preconsonantal form:thy ). - pronoun archaic Singular second person possessive pronoun.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Before a noun beginning with a vowel thine and mine are commonly substituted for thy and my, as in thine eyes and mine infirmity.
Chapter 9. The Common Speech. 4. The Pronoun Henry Louis 1921
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Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thine heart: thou shalt in any wise rebuke [reason with] thy neighbour, and not suffer sin upon him.
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Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye?
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For thine is the Himmler, the Goebbels and the Goering
Archive 2009-02-01 Dungeekin 2009
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And in thine old age will she still make thee glad, and thy memory of her in the days of thy strength will be sweet, for thou wilt know always that she was ease to thee, and peace, and rest, and that beyond all women to other men has she been woman to thee.
NEGORE, THE COWARD 2010
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Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thine heart: thou shalt in any wise rebuke [reason with] thy neighbour, and not suffer sin upon him.
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Be not wise in thine own eyes; fear the LORD, and depart from all evil.
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Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thine heart: thou shalt in any wise rebuke [reason with] thy neighbour, and not suffer sin upon him.
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Be not wise in thine own eyes; fear the LORD, and depart from all evil.
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Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thine heart: thou shalt in any wise rebuke [reason with] thy neighbour, and not suffer sin upon him.
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