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wert
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Word definitions for wert in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Wert \Wert\ (w[~e]rt), The second person singular, indicative and subjunctive moods, imperfect tense, of the verb be. It is formed from were, with the ending -t, after the analogy of wast. Now used only in solemn or poetic style.
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vb. (context archaic English) (form of second-person singular simple past subjunctive be English)
Usage examples of wert.
Chief had spoken soft words of thee, and passed the order that thou wert Begum, that whatsoever thou desired was to be.
Sonne und beim Mond und bei allen Elementen, Herrin: du bist eine Reise ans Ende der Welt wert!
Myles Falworth, an thou wert a knight and of rank fit to run a joust with the Sieur de la Montaigne, wouldst thou dare encounter him in the lists?
Now, thou France That wert the mother of fair chivalry, Unclose thine eyes, unclose thine eyes, here, see, Here stand a herd of knaves that laugh to scorn Thy gentlemen!
Bird thou never wert, That from Heaven, or near it, Pourest thy full heart In profuse strains of unpremeditated art.
Heaven only know whitherward thou shouldest come, if thou wert to guide thyself now.
He heard thee tell Gosse, Falworth, that thou wert going thither for thy arbalist this morn to shoot at the rooks withal.
For fools that fond and foolish sigh, That wert thou foul as hog in sty Fair women must unto thee fly.
Wisest, Ruler of Hova, Lord of the Universe, was being entertained by a troupe of Goefd dancers when his Lord of War, Wert, bounded into the Audience Hall.
Wert thou to know that which I know, thou wouldst forgo the sovereignty of this world and of the next, that thou mightest attain My good-pleasure, through thine obedience unto the True One.
And thou, O sun, who even now must be making haste to saddle thy steeds, and climb the heavens, and see my lady, I pray thee when thou seest her to greet her on my behalf, but be thou certain not to kiss her face when thou seest and greetest her, for then I shall be more envious of thee than thou wert of that fleet ingrate who madest thee to perspire and race across the plains of Thessaly or along the banks of the Peneus, for I do not remember precisely where thou rannest then so envious and enamored.
I tell thee that if thou wert to take service with my lord thou shouldest never rue it.
Heaven only know whitherward thou shouldest come, if thou wert to guide thyself now.
Didst thou not tell me that even by pouring wine before the threshold, and calling on the name of some Grecian deity, thou didst fear thou wert incurring penalties worse than those of Tantalus, an eternity of tortures more terrible than those of the Tartarian fields?
Verily I deem that if thou wert to meet a company of foemen, thou wouldest compel them to do thy bidding.