durst
: Durst
Anglais modifier
Forme de verbe modifier
durst \dɜːɹst\ (Royaume-Uni) ou \dɝɹst\ (États-Unis)
- (Archaïsme) Participe passé du verbe dare.
- And here the maiden, sleeping sound,
On the dank and dirty ground.
Pretty soul! She durst not lie
Near this lack-love, this kill-courtesy. — (William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Acte 2, Scène 2, 1596) - You think it is the godly that have these divisions, when the most and worst of all our divisions proceed from the ungodly that have an unsound and unrenewed heart, under the cloak of piety and zeal : for if they were truly gracious persons, they durst not do as many of them do. They durst not so rashly and easily venture on novelties as they do, without deliberation, and reading, and hearing what can be said on the other side. They durst not so easily make a division in the church of Christ. Nor so easily cast a stumbling-block before the weak; and matter of reproach to our Christian profession before the wicked. Nor durst they so easily reproach, and condemn, and cast off the unanimous faithful ministers of Christ. Nor durst they so easily censure the universal church in former ages, as many of them do. Nor durst they sacrifice the success, and honour of the Gospel, and the common acknowledged truths, and the saving of men’s souls thereby, to their private opinions, and ends. Nor durst they make so great a breach in charity, nor so arrogantly condemn or slight their brethren, whose piety and soberness they cannot deny. — (Richard Baxter et William Orme, The Practical Works of the Rev. Richard Baxter, Vol. XVI, Londres, GB, 1830)
- But there was made such an ordinance afore by Merlin, that there should no man of war ride nor go in no country on this side Trent water, but if he had a token from King Arthur, where through the king’s enemies durst not ride, as they did tofore, to espy. — (Thomas Malory, Le Morte d’Arthur, Livre I, Chapitre IX, édition Caxton révisée, 2e édition, MacMillan and Co., Londres, GB, 1868)
- Captain Smollett, the squire, and Dr. Livesey were talking together on the quarter-deck, and anxious as I was to tell them my story, I durst not interrupt them openly. — (Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, chapitre 12, 1883)
- Others, I am not the first,
Have willed more mischief than they durst:
If in the breathless night I too
Shiver now, ’tis nothing new. — (Alfred Edward Housman, A Shropshire Lad, XXX, 1887)
- And here the maiden, sleeping sound,
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