Talk:lest

English, verb

I have never encountered the word to mean lust, desire or pleasure. I cannot find any references to it meaning this. Its main use is as a conjunction and have have not heard of any of the other uses, however,they at least seem plausable. Ksbrown 13:34, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

• OK. I searched several dictionaries, including the full OED, and have removed all bad definitions. SemperBlotto 13:46, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

Irony

"in order that the subjunctive be avoided where it is uncommon" Obviously isn't much of an issue. --91.84.200.229 21:19, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

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lest

Lots of annoying elipses in the defn. Surely there's a better way to define it. --Gente como tú (talk) 20:17, 26 January 2018 (UTC)

No more elipses ^[sic] — surjection ⟨??⟩ 22:04, 7 August 2021 (UTC)