durst

«durst» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: dared — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

kind

archaic form

modern equivalent

dared

part of speech

verb, past tense of dare

meaning for a pupil

Had the courage to do something. tree →

how it differs from today

No longer used; today we say "dared."

examples

• "How durst thou read such and such passages to me?" said the Tsar.--"They were written to be read," replied the priest.--"Written, indeed! (Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales) tree →
• Now everybody in the town and neighborhood was in great fear, and no one durst venture out after sunset near the Gate of Rashomon. (Japanese Fairy Tales) tree →
• And the woman was trying to get her cow to go up a ladder to the grass, and the poor thing durst not go. (English Fairy Tales) tree →

tests

manual 5; corpora 9 (Torah 0, tales 9, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 1.0 (Torah alone 0.0); Wiktionary archaic (a sense)

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «durst» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.