thou
thou (t̸ho̵u)
pl. you, ye
Archaic personal pronoun in the second person singular: once used in familiar address, but now replaced by you except in poetic or religious use and in some British dialects: thee is the objective form, thine the possessive, and thyself the intensive and reflexive; thy is the possessive pronominal adjective
Etymology: ME < OE thu, akin to Ger du < IE *tu > L & Sans tu
thou (t̸ho̵u)
noun pl. thou or thous
Slang thousand
Converse of object
- shalt: Thy daughter thou shalt not give unto his son, nor his daughter shalt thou take unto thy son.
- wouldst: What is this fountain, wouldst thou rightly know?
- forsake: On the cross he cried, 'My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?
Adjective modifier
- knowest: And he answered, Knowest thou not what these be.
- lovest: Peter was grieved because he said unto him the third time, Lovest thou me?
- thinkest: Thinkest thou that I cannot now pray to my Father & he shall give me more then twelve legions of angels.
- sayest: Speak out, and mumble not; what sayest thou, sirrah?
- eatest: They had broken his law, and knew the consequences - " In the day that thou eatest thereof, thou shalt surely die.
- speakest: Then Peter said unto him, Lord, speakest thou this parable unto us, or even to all?
Modifies a noun
- didst: Thou didst enlist early in the career of glory in the Order.
- wilt: Thou wilt say then unto me; Why doth he yet find fault?
- dost: Whose sins thou dost forgive, they are forgiven; and whose sins thou dost retain, they are retained.
- canst: Thou canst not present any service or sacrifice that will at all avail thee for averting the Divine wrath or winning the Divine favor.
- wast: O Jonathan, thou wast slain in thine high places.
- mayest: I have breathed within thee a breath of My own Spirit, that thou mayest be My lover.
Noun used with modifier
- dost: Why else dost thou think I have caused a flood to descend upon the earth?
- wilt: The king prayed in the court of the temple, " O our God, wilt thou not judge them?
- canst: Trace your own hearts: how canst thou say, I am not polluted?
- didst: Didst thou ever see a lark in a cage?
- O: Mine, O thou lord of life, send my roots rain.
Jedes geeinzelte Du ist ein Durchblick zu ihm. Durch jedes geeinzelte Du spricht das Grundwort das Ewige an. Every particularThou is a glimpse through to the eternal Thou; by means of every particularThou the primary word addresses the eternal Thou. 164
Inquire often, but judge rarely, and thou wilt not often be mistaken.
No man has a right to fix the boundary of the march of a nation. No man has a right to say to his country,'Thus far thou shalt go and no further.'
Browse dictionary entries near thou
- Thoth
- those
- Thos
- Thorpe
- thorp
- thoroughwort
- thoroughpin
- thoroughpaced
- thoroughly
- thoroughgoing
