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  • verb archaic second-person singular simple past of think

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thought + -est

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Examples

  • Herein lay thy grievous error, due to ignorance; thou thoughtest thyself some one, relying on thy wealth, but this is naught save to stay with us a space.

    Electra 2008

  • Herein lay thy grievous error, due to ignorance; thou thoughtest thyself some one, relying on thy wealth, but this is naught save to stay with us a space.

    Electra 2008

  • In short, thou mayest, at this rate, so miserably deceive thyself, that, notwithstanding all thy self-denial and mortification, when thou closest thy eyes, thou mayst perhaps open them in a place where thou thoughtest least to be.

    Clarissa Harlowe 2006

  • Thou who never thoughtest either conscience or remorse an honour to thee.

    Clarissa Harlowe 2006

  • These things hast thou done, and I kept silence; thou thoughtest that I was altogether such an one as thyself: but I will reprove thee, and set them in order before thine eyes.

    Villaraigosa And Nunez Cut And Run - Video Report 2006

  • Thou shouldest not take liberties with him of this sort, unless thou thoughtest him absolutely irrecoverable.

    Clarissa Harlowe 2006

  • These things hast thou done, and I kept silence; thou thoughtest that I was altogether such an one as thyself: but I will reprove thee, and set them in order before thine eyes.

    Probably Just One Of Those Funny Coincidences 2006

  • (TO BLOOM) Thou thoughtest as how thou wastest invisible.

    Ulysses 2003

  • These things thou hast done, and I kept silence; thou thoughtest, wicked one, that I should be like to thyself.

    ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus 1819-1893 2001

  • These things hast thou done, and I kept silence; thou thoughtest that I would be like thyself in wickedness.

    ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus 1819-1893 2001

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