HomeServicesBlogDictionariesContactSpanish Course
← Back to search

Meaning of soughten | Babel Free

Verb CEFR B2

Definitions

past of seek

form-of, obsolete, past

Examples

“[…] that John Gallius Viscount, Duke of Millen, in Italye, soughten both farre and nere to get Englishmen and Gascones, and eke other strange nations, to serven him in his warres agaynst the emperour that there y called was Robert, […]”
“Who hath been a soldier O? Who hath soughten glory?”
“Sweet love I all my life have soughten And bitter hatred found instead have; I've sighed, I've cursed, I've fared, I've foughten And from a thousand wounds I bled have.”

CEFR level

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

See also

Learn this word in context

See soughten used in real conversations inside our free language course.

Start Free Course