Meaning of in stead of | Babel Free

Definitions

Archaic form of instead of.

alt-of, archaic

Examples

“Slaue I haue ſet my life vpon a caſt, / And I will ſtand the hazard of the die⟳, / I thinke there be ſixe Richmonds in the field, / Fiue haue I ſlaine to daie in ſtead of him, / A horſe, a horſe, my kingdome for a horſe.”

“I my ſelfe vvill haue / The beards of Barbels, ſeru'd, in ſtead of ſallades; / Oyld Muſhromes; and the ſvvelling vnctuous papps / Of a fat pregnant Sovv, nevvly cut⟳ off, / Dreſt vvith an exquiſite, and poynant ſauce; […]”

“The Reformation you haue made of the many and maine corruptions of the Romiſh Ch[urch] vve do ingenuouſly acknovvledge, and doe vvithall imbrace vvith you all the truths vvhich to our knovvledge you haue receiued in ſtead of them. But Rome vvas not built all in a day.”

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