Word Finder - wouldst

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(now uncommon or literary) To wish, desire (something).

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Do what you will.

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(nowadays rare) To wish or desire (that something happen); to intend (that).

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(auxiliary) To habitually do (a given action).

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(auxiliary) To choose to (do something); used to express intention but without any temporal connotations (+ bare infinitive), often in negation.

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I’ve told him three times, but he won’t take his medicine.

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(auxiliary) Used to express the future tense, sometimes with some implication of volition when used in the first person. Compare shall.

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(auxiliary) To be able to, to have the capacity to.

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Unfortunately, only one of these gloves will actually fit over my hand.

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(auxiliary) Expressing a present tense with some conditional or subjective weakening: "will turn out to", "must by inference".

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To wish, desire.

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To instruct (that something be done) in one's will.

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To try to make (something) happen by using one's will (intention).

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All the fans were willing their team to win the game.

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To bequeath (something) to someone in one's will (legal document).

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He willed his stamp collection to the local museum.

Wouldst thou have the caliph murdered, or delivered over to the enemy?

For thou hast no delight in sacrifice; were I to give a burnt offering, thou wouldst not be pleased.

Be observant if thou wouldst have a pure heart, for something is born to thee in consequence of every action.

What is this fountain, wouldst thou rightly know?

Thou wouldst not play false and yet wouldst wrongly win?

I never dreamt that Thou wouldst drown me here In the dark waters of this shoreless sea.

Wouldst thou say to the seasons, " Pass not on, lest I grow old "?

In the glitter that environs thee, rather wouldst thou be taken for the successor of Constantine than for the successor of Peter."