let be

verb — 3 senses

let be

verb

1

To not disturb or meddle with; to leave (someone or something) alone (see let it be).

Will you never let me be?
Another answers, ‘Let him be, ⁠He loves to make parade of pain, ⁠That with his piping he may gain The praise that comes to constancy.’1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto XXI”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 35:

2

Archaic To stop, to stop doing something; to leave off (now used alone, formerly also + infinitive).

Let be therefore my vengeaunce to disswade [...].1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

3

Mathematics, Sciences Used to assign a value to a symbol.

Let f be any real-valued function on I and g be any real-valued function on J.

Derived terms: leaves of three, let it be, let it be

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