wote

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A form of wot — To know (a fact).

Scrabble 7

Meanings

verbwote (third-person singular simple present wotes, present participle woting, simple past and past participle woted)

present singular third person wotes · participle present woting · participle past woted · past woted · first person past singular woted · archaic present second person singular wotest · past second person singular woted · archaic past second person singular wotedst · present singular third person wotes · archaic present singular third person woteth · past singular third person woted · past plural woted · past subjunctive woted · participle present woting · participle past woted

  1. EarlyModernalternativeAlternative form of wot.

    Now (sayd the Lady) draweth toward night, And well I wote, that of your later fight Ye all forwearied be: for what so strong, 285 But wanting rest will also want of might?

    1590, Edmund Spenser, Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I, published 1921
    1 more example

    He builded within the citie of ] London then called Troinouant, a temple, and named it the temple of peace: the which (as some hold opinion, I wote not vpon what ground) was the same which now is called Blackwell hall, where the market for buieng and selling of cloths is kept.

    1577, Raphael Holinshed, Chronicles (1 of 6): The Historie of England (3 of 8)

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