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forthinketh

forthinketh is the third-person singular simple present indicative of forthink.

Meaning of forthink

Verb

forthink (third-person singular simple present forthinks, present participle forthinking, simple past and past participle forthought)

  1. (impersonal, obsolete, transitive) To cause distress or regret to; cause to regret or repent; to vex.
    • with hys swerd lyghtly he smote of hir hede before kynge Arthur / allas for shame sayd Arthur why haue ye done so / ye haue shamed me and al my Courte / for this was a lady that I was be holden to / and hyther she came vnder my sauf conduyte / I shalle neuer foryeue you that trespas / Sir said...1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “iij”, in Le Morte Darthur, book II
  2. (obsolete, reflexive) To regret; repent.
  3. (obsolete, transitive) To regret.
    • So cam he to the chamber dore / and wold haue entryd / And anone a voyce said to hym / Flee launcelot / and entre not / for thou oughtest not to doo hit / And yf thou entre / thou shalt forthynke hit / Thenne he withdrewe hym abak ryght heuy1485, Sir Thomas Malory, chapter XV, in Le Morte Darthur, book XVII
  4. (intransitive, obsolete) To repent, be sorry for.
  5. (obsolete, transitive) To change one's mind about; to renounce.
    • Then gan he thinke, perforce with sword and targe / Her forth to fetch, and Proteus to constraine; / But soone he gan such folly to forthinke againe.1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Origin of forthinketh

forthink + -eth

Questions about forthinketh

What is forthinketh the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Forthinketh is the third-person singular simple present indicative of forthink.

Words near forthinketh in the dictionary

  1. forthgoer
  2. forthgoers
  3. forthgoing
  4. forthgoings
  5. forthink
  6. forthinketh
  7. forthinking
  8. forthinks
  9. forthlead
  10. forthleading
  11. forthleads

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