needst

alternative need'st · alternative needest

1. archaicindicativepresentsecond personsingularsecond-person singular simple present indicative of need

   Thou needst not love me any more; I care not for thy love.

   1900, George MacDonald, Paul Faber, Surgeon

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   If that be all, then cheare thy drooping lookes, For I will furnish thee with such supplies: Let some of those thy followers goe with me, And they shall haue what thing so ere thou needst.

   1594, Christopher Marlowe, The Tragedy of Dido Queene of Carthage

   "Thou needst na run," he called; "I've not the time to catch thee now.

   1897, John Bennett, Master Skylark

   Through the faintness and the leaden horror that weighed her down she heard Ferne's voice, at first yet monotonous and low, at the last an irrepressible cry of passion: "Now there is no longer troth between us, and all thy days, by summer and by winter, thou mayst listen unabashed to tales of such as I. If I am named to thee, thou needst not blush, for now I have seared away that eve above the river, that morn at Penshurst.

   1904, Mary Johnston, Sir Mortimer