See ye in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"ref": "1671, Elisha Coles, chapter 6, in ΧΡΙΣΤΟΛΟΓΙΑ: Or, a Metrical Paraphraſe on the Hiſtory of Our Lord and Saviour Jeſus Chriſt : Dedicated to His Univerſal Church:",
"text": "Queſtion me then no more; whate'er ye want, / Ask in my Name, and God ſhall ſurely grant. / You've asked nothing yet for Jesus sake : / Ask and receive, and of my joyes partake.",
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{
"ref": "1995, Elizabeth II, “Legal Notice 247 of 1996”, in Hong Kong Government Gazette, page B1096:",
"text": "Know Ye that We have declared and by these Presents do declare our Will and Pleasure as follows—[…]",
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"You (the people being addressed)."
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"(archaic outside Northern England, Cornwall, Ireland, Newfoundland) You (the people being addressed)."
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"ref": "1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, chapter 23:",
"text": "Know ye now, Bulkington? Glimpses do ye seem to see of that mortally intolerable truth; that all deep, earnest thinking is but the intrepid effort of the soul to keep the open independence of her sea; [...]",
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"You (the singular person being addressed)."
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"(archaic) You (the singular person being addressed)."
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"word": "y'all"
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"ref": "1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Timothy 1:17, column 2:",
"text": "Now vnto yͤ king eternal, immortall, inuiſible, the onely wiſe God, be honour and glory for euer ⁊ euer. Amen.",
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{
"ref": "1647, The old deluder, Satan, Act. (cited in American Public School Law, K. Alexander, M. Alexander, 1995)",
"text": "It being one cheife proiect of yᵉ ould deluder, Satan, to keepe men from the knowledge of Scriptures, as in formʳ times by keeping yᵐ in an unknowne tongue, so in these lattʳ times by perswading from yᵉ use of tongues, yᵗ so at least yᵉ true sence & meaning of yᵉ originall might be clouded by false glosses of saint seeming deceivers, yᵗ learning may not be buried in yᵉ church and commonwealth, the Lord assisting oʳ endeavoʳs,"
},
{
"text": "Ye Olde Medicine Shoppe (pseudoarchaic)"
}
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}
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