"durst" meaning in English

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          "text": "Traditional rhyme\nFour and twenty tailors went to kill a snail; the best man among them durst not touch her tail."
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          "ref": "c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii], lines 82-83:",
          "text": "Pretty soul! She durst not lie / Near this lack-love, this kill-courtesy.",
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          "text": "That thou durst, Arcite!",
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          "text": "Who durst defy th' omnipotent to arms.",
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          "ref": "1830, The Book of Mormon:",
          "text": "And they durst not steal, for fear of the law, for such were punished; neither durst they rob, nor murder, for he that murdered was punished unto death.",
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          "ref": "1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, “6, Monk Samson”, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, book II (The Ancient Monk):",
          "text": "Coming home, therefore, I sat me down secretly under the Shrine of St. Edmund, fearing lest our Lord Abbot should seize and imprison me, though I had done no mischief; nor was there a monk who durst speak to me, nor a laic who durst bring me food except by stealth.",
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          "text": "Captain Smollett, the squire, and Dr. Livesey were talking together on the quarter-deck, and, anxious as I was to tell them my story, I durst not interrupt them openly.",
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          "ref": "1896, A. E. Housman, A Shropshire Lad, XXX, lines 1-2",
          "text": "Others, I am not the first,\nHave willed more mischief than they durst"
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