Meaning of durst | Babel Free

Definitions

simple past and past participle of dare

archaic, dialectal, form-of, participle, past

Examples

“Traditional rhyme Four and twenty tailors went to kill a snail; the best man among them durst not touch her tail.”

“Pretty soul! She durst not lie / Near this lack-love, this kill-courtesy.”

“That thou durst, Arcite!”

“Who durst defy th' omnipotent to arms.”

“And they durst not steal, for fear of the law, for such were punished; neither durst they rob, nor murder, for he that murdered was punished unto death.”

“Coming home, therefore, I sat me down secretly under the Shrine of St. Edmund, fearing lest our Lord Abbot should seize and imprison me, though I had done no mischief; nor was there a monk who durst speak to me, nor a laic who durst bring me food except by stealth.”

“Captain Smollett, the squire, and Dr. Livesey were talking together on the quarter-deck, and, anxious as I was to tell them my story, I durst not interrupt them openly.”

“Others, I am not the first, Have willed more mischief than they durst”

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