See ween in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"ref": "1481, Author unknown (pseudonym Sir John Mandeville), The travels of Sir John Mandeville",
"text": "And when they will fight they will shock them together in a plump; that if there be 20000 men, men shall not ween that there be scant 10000."
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"text": "And right as Arthur was on horseback there came a damosel from Morgan le Fay, and brought unto Sir Arthur a sword like unto Excalibur, and the scabbard, and said unto Arthur, Morgan le Fay sendeth here your sword for great love. And he thanked her, and weened it had been so, but she was false, for the sword and the scabbard were counterfeit, and brittle, and false."
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"ref": "1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, Acts:",
"text": "Then sayde Peter unto hym: Perissh thou and thy money togedder. For thou wenest that the gyfte of god maye be obteyned with money?",
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"ref": "1562, John Heywood, The proverbs, epigrams, and miscellanies of John Heywood:",
"text": "Wise men in old time would ween themselves fools; Fools now in new time will ween themselves wise.",
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"ref": "1677, Thomas Mall, A cloud of witnesses:",
"text": "… for I ween he will no longer suffer him to abide among the adulterous and wicked Generation of this World.",
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"ref": "1816, S[amuel] T[aylor] Coleridge, “(please specify the page)”, in Christabel: Kubla Khan, a Vision: The Pains of Sleep, London: […] John Murray, […], by William Bulmer and Co. […], →OCLC:",
"text": "But neither heat, nor frost, nor thunder,\nShall wholly do away, I ween,\nThe marks of that which once hath been.",
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"ref": "1879, W[illiam] S[chwenck] Gilbert, Arthur Sullivan, composer, “When I was a lad”, in H.M.S. Pinafore; […], San Francisco: Bacon & Company, […], →OCLC:",
"text": "And that junior partnership, I ween, Was the only ship that I ever had seen.",
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"ref": "1884, W.S. Gilbert, Princess Ida:",
"text": "Yet humble second shall be first, I ween",
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"ref": "1888–1891, Herman Melville, “[Billy Budd, Foretopman.] Chapter XVIII.”, in Billy Budd and Other Stories, London: John Lehmann, published 1951, →OCLC:",
"text": "Little ween the snug card-players in the cabin of the responsibilities of the sleepless man on the bridge.",
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"ref": "1974, Stanisław Lem, translated by Michael Kandel, The Cyberiad:",
"text": "Klapaucius too, I ween,\nWill turn the deepest green\nTo hear such flawless verse from Trurl’s machine.",
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"text": "Then sayde Peter unto hym: Perissh thou and thy money togedder. For thou wenest that the gyfte of god maye be obteyned with money?",
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"ref": "1562, John Heywood, The proverbs, epigrams, and miscellanies of John Heywood:",
"text": "Wise men in old time would ween themselves fools; Fools now in new time will ween themselves wise.",
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"ref": "1677, Thomas Mall, A cloud of witnesses:",
"text": "… for I ween he will no longer suffer him to abide among the adulterous and wicked Generation of this World.",
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"ref": "1816, S[amuel] T[aylor] Coleridge, “(please specify the page)”, in Christabel: Kubla Khan, a Vision: The Pains of Sleep, London: […] John Murray, […], by William Bulmer and Co. […], →OCLC:",
"text": "But neither heat, nor frost, nor thunder,\nShall wholly do away, I ween,\nThe marks of that which once hath been.",
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"ref": "1879, W[illiam] S[chwenck] Gilbert, Arthur Sullivan, composer, “When I was a lad”, in H.M.S. Pinafore; […], San Francisco: Bacon & Company, […], →OCLC:",
"text": "And that junior partnership, I ween, Was the only ship that I ever had seen.",
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"ref": "1884, W.S. Gilbert, Princess Ida:",
"text": "Yet humble second shall be first, I ween",
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"ref": "1888–1891, Herman Melville, “[Billy Budd, Foretopman.] Chapter XVIII.”, in Billy Budd and Other Stories, London: John Lehmann, published 1951, →OCLC:",
"text": "Little ween the snug card-players in the cabin of the responsibilities of the sleepless man on the bridge.",
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"ref": "1974, Stanisław Lem, translated by Michael Kandel, The Cyberiad:",
"text": "Klapaucius too, I ween,\nWill turn the deepest green\nTo hear such flawless verse from Trurl’s machine.",
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