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Meaning of let be | Babel Free

Verb CEFR B2

Definitions

  1. To not disturb or meddle with; to leave (someone or something) alone (see let it be).
    transitive
  2. To stop, to stop doing something; to leave off (now used alone, formerly also + infinitive).
    archaic, intransitive
  3. Used to assign a value to a symbol.

Equivalents

Examples

“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.’”
“Let be therefore my vengeaunce to disswade [...].”
“Let f be any real-valued function on I and g be any real-valued function on J.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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