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Examples of thou
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Don't act like the server's money is holier than thou and ours is not important.
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Early Modern English distinguished between the plural you and the singular thou.
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The idea of the missionaries'pretentious holier-than-thou attitude is laughable.
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Please would the holier-than-thou Big 12 purists give it a break about tradition.
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Hasten thereunto that thou mayest become an eternal light and an immortal spirit.
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So AMLO does have a good chance of winning even thou their is more PRI governors.
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Early Modern English distinguished between the plural ye and the singular thou.
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He ruleth over 29 Legions of Spirits, and his Seal is this, which wear thou, etc.
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The school motto Go and do thou likewise, was the motto for the Colston family.
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- Thousand: the cardinal number that is the product of 10 and 100
- Louis-Marie Aubert du Petit-Thouars (5 November 1758, Bournois u2013 12 May 1831, Paris) was an eminent French botanist known for his work collecting and describing orchids from the three islands of Madagascar, Mauritius and Ru00E9union.
- The word thou (in most dialects) is a second person singular pronoun in English. It is now largely archaic, having been replaced in almost all contexts by you. It is still used in parts of Northern England and some Scots dialects. ...
- A thou also known as a mil or point, is the verbalized abbreviation for "thousandth(s) of an inch", a unit of length incremented at 0.001 inch.
- A unit of length equal to one-thousandth of an inch; To address (a person) using the pronoun thou, especially as an expression of familiarity or contempt; To use the word thou; you (singular informal)
- A British name for what Americans call a mil: a unit of distance equal to 0.001 inch (25.4 micrometers).
- An abbreviation for thousandth or one divided by a thousand; a small measurement representing 1/1000th of an inch as in Ten thou (0.01) is equal to 0.25 mm."
- Pn. In older English usage, the familiar second person singular pronoun, as contrasted to 'you', the formal and plural second person pronoun.
- You. Used when addressing equals.
