See also: wt, wt., and -wt

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  1. Alternative form of wt (with)
    • [1502], Chronycle of Englonde[1], [London]: [Wynkyn de Worde], →OCLC:
      The kynge axed upon a daye counſeyll of the quene what was beſt to do the ſones yͭ were Edmonde Irenſydes. Syr ſayd ſhe.they ben the ryght heyres of the londe / ⁊ yf they lyue they wyll do moche ſorowe warre / ⁊ therfore lete ſende them in to a ſtrange londe a ferre to ſome man that may them defoyle ⁊ deſtroy.
    • 1569, “Epistle to the Moste Vertuous and Noble Quene Elisabet, Quene of England, France, and Ireland, &c. []”, in The Bible and Holy Scriptures Conteyned in the Olde and Newe Testament. [][2], 2nd edition, Geneva: [] Iohn Crispin:
      And as euery one is indued of God greater giftes, ſo ought he to be herein chefely heard, or at leaſt yͭ without yͤ expreſſe worde none be heard: for he yͭ hathe not yͤ worde ſpeaketh not by yͤ mouth of yͤ Lord.
    • 1582, R[ichard] H[akluyt], compiler, Divers Voyages Touching the Discouerie of America, and the Ilands adiacent vnto the Same, [], imprinted at London: [By Thomas Dawson] for Thomas VVoodcocke, [], →OCLC:
      [page 66] They are very pitiful and charitable towardes their neighbours, they make great lamentations in their aduerſitie ⁊ in their miſerie, the kinred recken vp all their felicitie, at their departure out of life, they vſe mourning mixt ſinging, wͨ continueth for a lõg ſpace. [] [page 81] He ſaith that it is a very great countrey and as it were a newe world, the people very rude and voyde of all goodneſſe, they goe all naked ſo that they are miſerablie vexed with colde, neyther haue they the wit to couer their bodies beaſts ſkins, wͨ they take in huntinge, they haue no kind of metal, they liue by hũting, they carie certaine lances of wood, made ſharp at yͤ point, they haue bowes, the ſtringes whereof are made of beaſtes ſkinnes: []
    • 1596, “The Papists doctrine touching the soules of dead men, and the appearing of them”, in R[obert] H[arrison], transl., Of Ghostes and Spirites, VValking by Night, and of straunge Noyses, Crackes, and sundrie forewarnings, which commonly happen before the death of men: Great slaughters, and alterations of Kingdomes. One Booke., London: [] Thomas Creede, translation of [De spectris, lemuribus et magnis atque insolitis fragoribus] by Lewes Lauaterus [i.e., Ludwig Lavater], pages 107–108:
      And yͭ it were beſt, yͤ ſober perſons ſhuld thus queſtiõ him, on ſom holiday before diner, or in yͤ night ſeaſõ, as is commõly accuſtomed.
      • 2 Chronicles 23:21, column 2 :
        And all the people of the land reioyced, and the city was quiet, after that they had ſlaine Athaliah the ſword.
      • 2 Maccabees 8:32, column 1 :
        They ſlew alſo Philarches that wicked persõ who was Timotheus, ⁊ had annoied the Jewes many waies.