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resortest

resortest is the second-person singular simple present indicative of resort.

Meaning of resort

Verb

resort (third-person singular simple present resorts, present participle resorting, simple past and past participle resorted)

  1. (intransitive) To have recourse (to), now especially from necessity or frustration.
    • The king thought it time to resort to other counsels.1702–1704, Edward [Hyde, 1st] Earl of Clarendon, (please specify |book=I to XVI), in The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, Begun in the Year 1641. […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed...
  2. (intransitive) To fall back; to revert.
    • But the Inheritance of the Son never reſorted to the Mother, or to any of her Anceſtors, but both ſhe and they were totally excluded from the Succeſſion.1713, [Matthew Hale], “Touching the Course of Descents in England”, in The History of the Common Law of England: […], [London]: […] J[ohn] Nutt, assignee of Edw[ard] Sayer Esq; for J. Walthoe, […]...
  3. (intransitive) To make one's way, go (to).
    • The same daye went Jesus out off the housse, and sat by the seesyde, and moch people resorted unto him, so gretly that he went and sat in a shyppe, and all the people stode on the shoore.1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, Matthew

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Origin of resortest

resort + -est

Questions about resortest

What is resortest the second-person singular simple present indicative of?
Resortest is the second-person singular simple present indicative of resort.

Words near resortest in the dictionary

  1. resort town
  2. resort towns
  3. resorted
  4. resorter
  5. resorters
  6. resortest
  7. resorteth
  8. resorting
  9. resortlike
  10. resorts
  11. resortwear

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