Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- A Middle English form of
three . - Three times; thrice.
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Examples
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And the Commandant of the Marine Corps wopuld not have changed his schedule and made a special trip to Iraq to talk to the Marines about thrie core values …
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Tell them thrie going to bomb an arbortion clinic, thta should motivate them
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Ormestoun; for those thrie [358] diligentlie awated upoun him.
The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) John Knox
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Thus we continewed from the Wednisday, the last of October, till Mononday the fyft of November, [1035] never two or thrie abyding ferme in one opinioun the space of twenty-four houris.
The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) John Knox
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Perth, 1607, was carried away into a fairy hill, 'thair scho stayit thrie dayis, viz. fra Thurisday till Sonday at xii houris.
The Witch-cult in Western Europe A Study in Anthropology Margaret Alice Murray 1913
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[Sidenote: Pamphlets] The field was taken on either side by an army of pamphlets, ballads and broadsides, of which the best known, perhaps, is David Lyndsay's _Ane Satire of the thrie Estatis_.
The Age of the Reformation Preserved Smith 1910
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"God put thame in their awin place," repeated thrice, he got "ellevin od schillings, with twa peckis of meill and thrie tailyeis of beiff."
Chronicles of Strathearn John Hunter 1883
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Mr. Sroughton, in Bartlett's-buildings, to present to the Society for promoting Christian Knowledges Hieet - i6g thrie weekly.
Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century: Comprizing Biographical ... 1812
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~ Some thrie after we had quitted J/a/y.with. the faireft Troops of the Empire, and that altriort all the reft were fent mto Spiin ox Germany: Alaric, who after the defeat of Sau -
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At Forfar in 1662 Marjorie Ritchie 'willingly and friely declared that the divill appeired to her thrie severall tymes in the similitud of a womane, the first tyme in on Jonet Barrie's house, the second tyme whyle she was putting vp lint in the companie of the said Jonet, and that the divill did take her by the hand at that tyme, and promised that she should never want money; and therafter that the divill appeired to her in the moiss of
The Witch-cult in Western Europe A Study in Anthropology Margaret Alice Murray 1913
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