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Leadest vs Leavest - What's the difference?

leadest | leavest |

In archaic terms the difference between leadest and leavest

is that leadest is second-person singular present simple form of leadleavest is archaic second-person singular of leave.

leadest

English

Verb

(head)
  • (archaic) Second-person singular present simple form of lead
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    leavest

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (archaic) (leave)
  • * {{quote-book, year=1878, author=Michael Angelo Buonarroti & Tommaso Campanella, title=Sonnets, chapter=, edition= citation
  • , passage=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. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1881, author=Madge Morris, title=Debris, chapter=, edition= citation
  • , passage=Each loved one that thou leavest here, Some other love may wear, Each heart will have some other heart Its loneliness to share. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1901, author=Charles Alfred Downer, title=Frédéric Mistral, chapter=, edition= citation
  • , passage="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!" }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1544-1595, author=Edward Fairfax (1560-1635);, title=Jerusalem Delivered, chapter=, edition= citation
  • , passage=XXXVI "Whither, O cruel! leavest thou me alone?" }}