See behest in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"text": "Moſt great and puiſant Monarke of the earth,\nYour Baſſoe wil accompliſh your beheſt: […]",
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"ref": "2005, Patrick Gale, Friendly Fire, London, New York: Fourth Estate, page 150:",
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"text": "c. 1440, Markaryte Paston, letter to John Paston\nThe time is come that I should send it her, if I keep the behest that I have made."
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"ref": "2005, Patrick Gale, Friendly Fire, London, New York: Fourth Estate, page 150:",
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"ref": "2007, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day:",
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