What does yought mean?
Yought means Obsolete form of youth..
Looking up this word…
Checking saved dictionary data and trusted language sources. This will stop automatically if a source does not respond.
Checking saved dictionary data and trusted language sources. This will stop automatically if a source does not respond.
Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
Obsolete form of youth..
Now for yᵉ moſt part of yought they nether knowe what god, what the deuell, what good, oꝛ what euell meanes.
As touching monaſticall vowes, the kyng ſupposeth that it might be obteined of the byſhop, that none ſhould be taken in yong, and befoꝛe the vowers were of rype yeares […] And thinketh not good to deface theyꝛ houſes, but to conuerte them in to Colleges, wherein yought may be brought vp in learnyng and vertue.
Before I anſwer to the queſtion, you muſt vnderſtand, that wee make foure differences in the age of beaſts, that is to ſay, the time of ſucking, of yought, of middle age, of old age.
Use yought when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Yought means Obsolete form of youth..
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Now for yᵉ moſt part of yought they nether knowe what god, what the deuell, what good, oꝛ what euell meanes.
FreeDictionaryAPI.com / Wiktionary · Original source · CC BY-SA 4.0
Dictionary data is provided by FreeDictionaryAPI.com and sourced from Wiktionary under its stated license.