Meanings
- obsoleteObsolete spelling of through.
It was som shame to a yong "man, to be seene in the open market: and if for businesse, he "passed throughe it, he did it, with a meruelous modestie, and "bashefull facion.
1570, Roger Ascham, The Schoolmaster2 more examples
Thus as the people of prudent pollycye, Prynces of the right shal governe; The chirche preye; the juges justefye; And knighthode, manly, and prudently discerne, Til light of trouthe so clerely the lanterne, That rightewysnesse throughe this regyoune, Represse the darknesse of al extorcyoune.
c. 1500, anonymous author, A Chronicle of London from 1089 to 1483Wheras young men also with hauntynge of whores (as it is dayly seene) catche the newe leprosie, nowe otherwyse named Jobs agew, and some cal it the scabbes of Naples, throughe
1545, Desiderius Erasmus, A Very Pleasaunt & Fruitful Diologe Called the Epicure
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