wast
verbUK /wɒst/ · US /wɔst/
Etymology From Late Middle English wast; equivalent to was + -est.
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Archaic, Indicative, Past, Second person second-person singular simple past indicative of be; wert.
- I remember the day when thou wast born.
- Take thou no scorn to wear the horn, It was a crest ere thou wast born […]c. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene 2 (a hunting song)]:
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- And he said, Who told thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat?1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 3:11:
- And I heard the angel of the waters say, Thou art righteous, O Lord, which art, and wast, and shalt be, because thou hast judged thus.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Revelation 16:5:
- Alas! We two, we two, thou say'st! Yea, one wast thou with me That once of old.1850, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, The Blessed Damozel, lines 97–99: