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# durst

«durst» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **dared** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### kind

archaic form

### modern equivalent

dared

### part of speech

verb, past tense of dare

### meaning for a pupil

Had the courage to do something. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/D/durst/#m1)

### how it differs from today

No longer used; today we say "dared."

### examples

- "How durst thou read such and such passages to me?" said the Tsar.--"They were written to be read," replied the priest.--"Written, indeed! (Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/D/durst/#x1)
- Now everybody in the town and neighborhood was in great fear, and no one durst venture out after sunset near the Gate of Rashomon. (Japanese Fairy Tales) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/D/durst/#x2)
- And the woman was trying to get her cow to go up a ladder to the grass, and the poor thing durst not go. (English Fairy Tales) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/D/durst/#x3)

### tests

manual 5; corpora 9 (Torah 0, tales 9, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 1.0 (Torah alone 0.0); Wiktionary archaic (a sense)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «durst» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/D/durst/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.