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"english": ", then you should hear from heaven, i.e. from your lofty place of residence. Forgive, and treat any individual according to their actions, which you know what their hearts contain, because only you know the hearts of humanity.",
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"text": "[…]for as to me I ded to hym no displeaſyre / and god knoweth I am ful ſory for hys diſeaſe and malady / Soo when the king had excuſed him / they were frendes[…]",
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"Middle English terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic",
"Middle English terms with quotations",
"Middle English verbs",
"Pages with 3 entries",
"Pages with entries"
],
"examples": [
{
"english": ", then you should hear from heaven, i.e. from your lofty place of residence. Forgive, and treat any individual according to their actions, which you know what their hearts contain, because only you know the hearts of humanity.",
"ref": "a. 1382, John Wycliffe, “2 Paralipomenon 6:30”, in Wycliffe's Bible:",
"text": "[…]þou ſchalt heꝛe fro heuene: þat is fro þin hiȝe dwellyng place and do þou meꝛcy and ȝelde þou to ech man aftir hiſe weies whiche þou knowiſt þat he haþ in his heꝛte for þou aloone knowiſt þe heꝛtis of þe ſones of men",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"english": "Because about myself, I didn't do any attacks on him, and God knows that I'm totally distressed about his disease and malady. So when the king had excused him (they were friends) […]",
"ref": "1470–1485 (date produced), Thomas Malory, “Capitulum xix”, in [Le Morte Darthur], book IX, [London: […] by William Caxton], published 31 July 1485, →OCLC; republished as H[einrich] Oskar Sommer, editor, Le Morte Darthur […], London: David Nutt, […], 1889, →OCLC, lines 28-31:",
"text": "[…]for as to me I ded to hym no displeaſyre / and god knoweth I am ful ſory for hys diſeaſe and malady / Soo when the king had excuſed him / they were frendes[…]",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"to know (possess knowledge)"
],
"links": [
[
"know",
"know"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈknɔu̯ən/"
}
],
"word": "knowen"
}
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