likest

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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verb

Archaic

adj

superlative form of like: most like

Archaic

"Like neuer yet did liuing eie detect; / But likeſt it to an Hyena was, / That feeds on wemens flesh, as others feede on gras."
"Then forthwith to him takes a choſen band / Of Spirits likeſt to himſelf in guile / To be at hand, and at his beck appear,[…]."
"Surely, estates be then best, when they are likest minds that be worst: I mean, neither hot, nor cold: neither distended with too much, nor narrowly pent […]"

From like + -est.

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