discoveredst
English
Verb
discoveredst
- (archaic) second-person singular simple past form of discover
- (Can we date this quote?)The Holy Mass, in Latin and English, page 208:
- In thoſe days: Jeremy ſaid: Lord, thou haſt ſhewed it me, and I know it: then thou diſcoveredſt to me their deſigns.
- 1741, John Martyn, Pub. Virgilii Maronis Georgicorum Libri Quatuor. The Georgicks of Virgil, with an English Translation and Notes., London: […] for the Editor, by Richard Reily, […], page 3:
- […] and thou, O Minerva, who diſcoveredſt the olive: […]
- 1890, Matteo Bandello, John Payne, transl., The Novels of Matteo Bandello Bishop of Agen Now First Done into English Prose and Verse, volume one, London: […] the Villon Society […], page 323:
- Of one thing I will e’en rebuke thee, so thou mayst never more fall into a like error, and that is that thou discoveredst not to me thy love, knowing that I was enamoured of her and knew nothing of thy passion; […]
- 1911, Friedrich Nietzsche, Thomas Common, transl., Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, page 311:
- “The penitent in spirit,” said the old man, “it was him—I represented; thou thyself once devisedst this expression— / —The poet and magician who at last turneth his spirit against himself, the transformed one who freezeth to death by his bad science and conscience. And just acknowledge it: it was long, O Zarathustra, before thou discoveredst my trick and lie! Thou believedst in my distress when thou heldest my head with both thy hands,— / —I heard thee lament ‘we have loved him too little, loved him too little!’ Because I so far deceived thee, my wickedness rejoiced in me.”
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