What does durst mean?
Durst means (archaic, dialectal) simple past and past participle of dare.
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/dɝst/ · verb
(archaic, dialectal) simple past and past participle of dare.
Traditional rhyme Four and twenty tailors went to kill a snail; the best man among them durst not touch her tail.
Others, I am not the first, Have willed more mischief than they durst
Pretty soul! She durst not lie / Near this lack-love, this kill-courtesy.
That thou durst, Arcite!
Who durst defy th' omnipotent to arms.
And they durst not steal, for fear of the law, for such were punished; neither durst they rob, nor murder, for he that murdered was punished unto death.
Coming home, therefore, I sat me down secretly under the Shrine of St. Edmund, fearing lest our Lord Abbot should seize and imprison me, though I had done no mischief; nor was there a monk who durst speak to me, nor a laic who durst bring me food except by stealth.
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.
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Durst means (archaic, dialectal) simple past and past participle of dare.
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Traditional rhyme Four and twenty tailors went to kill a snail; the best man among them durst not touch her tail.
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