English

Verb

leavest

1. (archaic) second-person singular simple present form of leave
   • 1544-1595, Edward Fairfax (1560-1635);, Jerusalem Delivered:

     XXXVI "Whither, O cruel! leavest thou me alone?"

   • 1878, Michael Angelo Buonarroti & Tommaso Campanella, Sonnets:

     But thou, thyself not knowing, leavest all For a poor price to strangers; since thy head Is weak, albeit thy limbs are stout and good.

   • 1881, Madge Morris, Debris:

     Each loved one that thou leavest here, Some other love may wear, Each heart will have some other heart Its loneliness to share.

   • 1901, Charles Alfred Downer, Frédéric Mistral:

     "My head is bursting, and since from the heights of my supernatural love a thunderbolt thus hurls me down, since, nothing, nothing henceforth, from this moment on, can give me joy, since, cruel woman, when thou couldst throw me a rope, thou leavest me, in dismay, to drink the bitter current--let death come, black hiding-place, bottomless abyss! let me plunge down head first!"