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  • verb Present participle of thou.

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Examples

  • "thouing" the magistrates, and for refusing to take the oaths enacted by the laws.

    Letters on England 1694-1778 Voltaire 1736

  • "thouing" was not approved of in a country where a man is perpetually obliged to employ the titles of "highness" and "excellency."

    Letters on England 1694-1778 Voltaire 1736

  • He was ‘theeing’ and ‘thouing’ me all over the place.

    Savage Peace Ann Hagedorn 2007

  • Mitchell Palmer was a Quaker but all the “theeing and thouing” of the night of June 2 was not about returning to his Quaker roots and sensibilities.

    Savage Peace Ann Hagedorn 2007

  • He was ‘theeing’ and ‘thouing’ me all over the place.

    Savage Peace Ann Hagedorn 2007

  • He was ‘theeing’ and ‘thouing’ me all over the place.

    Savage Peace Ann Hagedorn 2007

  • Mitchell Palmer was a Quaker but all the “theeing and thouing” of the night of June 2 was not about returning to his Quaker roots and sensibilities.

    Savage Peace Ann Hagedorn 2007

  • Mitchell Palmer was a Quaker but all the “theeing and thouing” of the night of June 2 was not about returning to his Quaker roots and sensibilities.

    Savage Peace Ann Hagedorn 2007

  • ” And in “Twelfth Night” Sir Toby Belch urges Sir Andrew Aguecheek to provoke the disguised Viola to combat by thouing her.

    Chapter 9. The Common Speech. 4. The Pronoun Henry Louis 1921

  • The Quakers were several times persecuted under Charles II.; not upon a religious account, but for refusing to pay the tithes, for “theeing” and “thouing” the magistrates, and for refusing to take the oaths enacted by the laws.

    Letter III-On the Quakers Voltaire 1909

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