seeked
English
Verb
seeked
- (nonstandard, proscribed) simple past tense and past participle of seek
- 1885, James Whitcomb Riley, Little Orphant Annie:
- An' they seeked him in the rafter-room, an* cubby-hole, an' press, / An' seeked him up the chimbly flue, an' ever'wheres, I guess; / But all they ever found was thist his pants an' roundabout!
- 2014, Christian Bullock, I Quan-Tum, Lulu.com (→ISBN), page 92:
- With the discovery of the Singularity Humans seeked the perfection of the circle and the Singularity. The perfection of these measurements were biological as well as mathematical. Humans seeked biological perfection but the ultimate goal […]
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