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vb. (context archaic English) second-person singular form of '''know'''.

Usage examples of "knowest".

For this our king is, as thou knowest, a tyrant who, though he greatly feareth death for himself, doth not hesitate to measure it out to us his subjects.

But mercy, lady bright, that knowest well My thought, and seest what harm that I feel.

For we dread the bitter morrow, But we will not despair: Thou knowest all our anguish, And Thou wilt bid it cease, - Oh Lamb of God who takest The sin of the world away, Give us Thy Peace!

For Thou who knowest, Lord, how soon Our weak heart clings, Hast given us joys, tender and true, Yet all with wings, So that we see, gleaming on high, Diviner things!

MIGNON Knowest thou the land where bloom the lemon trees, And darkly gleam the golden oranges?

Thou knowest the corners of the jealous Earth Where God has hidden jewels of great worth.

And thou well knowest, and hast thyself seen, how all the princes of influence and power, one alone excepted, are eager to enter into treaty with the Soldan.

But look thou here, and as thou knowest or disownest this token, so obey or refuse her commands who hath deigned to impose them on thee.

And thou knowest there is much superstition abroad in the land--too much to make it just to single out Humphrey for dislike because he is tainted with it.

Her ladyship now--surely thou knowest she keepeth the postern key herself, and will trust no one with it.

But tell me plainly, since we have gone so far, knowest thou the whereabouts of the key?

King John, as thou knowest, hath a special hatred toward his father, Lord De Aldithely.

The king looketh for thee to hear thee tell what thou knowest of the whereabouts of the young lord and his companion.

This town of Mansoul, as thou very well knowest, is mine, and that by a twofold right.

Pass by, I pray thee, and take not notice of who I am, because there is, as thou very well knowest, so great a disproportion between me and thee.