soughten

English

Verb

soughten

1. (obsolete, plural verb form) past of seek
   • 1844 (original date: 1564), Nicholas de Guildford, Thomas Wright, The Owl and the Nightingale:

     […] that John Gallius Viscount, Duke of Millen, in Italye, soughten both farre and nere to get Englishmen and Gascones, and eke other strange nations, to serven him in his warres agaynst the emperour that there y called was Robert, […]

2. (archaic, poetic) past participle of seek
   • 1803 (original date: 1795), John Bristed, The adviser (original: The Cabinet - Volume 2 - Page 212):

     Who hath been a soldier O? Who hath soughten glory?

   • 1911, Heinrich Heine, The Poetical Works of Heinrich Heine:

     Sweet love I all my life have soughten And bitter hatred found instead have; I've sighed, I've cursed, I've fared, I've foughten And from a thousand wounds I bled have.

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• toughens

Middle English

Verb

soughten

1. past participle of seek