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conjunction

Lest conj.

For fear that; that... not; in order that... not. "Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty." "Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall."

That (without the negative particle); after certain expressions denoting fear or apprehension. "I feared Lest I might anger thee."

noun

Lest n. Lust; desire; pleasure. (Obs.)

verb

Lest v. i. To listen. (Obs.)

adjective

Lest adj. Last; least. (Obs.)

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Etymology of 'Lest'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Lest" Quotes from Famous Books

... above Of Him who is Love, In the snow and the rain-storm bids me to rove, Lest the young-budding earth Be destroyed in the birth, And Famine insult over ...

— Gems Gathered in Haste - A New Year's Gift for Sunday Schools • Anonymous

... pieces of cannon, served with an activity not often seen. The hospital and the houses around it, which also serve as hospitals, are attacked with cannon and mortar. The surgeon trembles as he amputates a limb amid cries of Gare la bombe! and leaves his patient in the midst of the operation, lest he should share his fate. The sick and wounded, stretched on mattresses, utter cries of pain, which do not cease till a shot or the bursting of a shell ends them."[586] On the twenty-sixth the last cannon was silenced in front of the town, and the English batteries had made a breach ...

— Montcalm and Wolfe • Francis Parkman

... The light that beams around, Lest, ere you look through error's mist, Truth strike you ...

— Poems with Power to Strengthen the Soul • Various

... powerful emperor of Spain and Germany. Henry VIII. requested that Francis should be delivered to him, as an ally of Spain, though knowing well that such a demand would not gain a moment's consideration. As for Italy, it was in terror lest it should be overrun ...

— Historical Tales - The Romance of Reality - Volume VII • Charles Morris

... earnestness in explaining further to her how it had come to pass that he had been supposed to be slain, and had even been suspected of his own murder; also, how he had put a pious fraud upon her which had preyed upon his mind, as the time for its disclosure approached, lest she might not make full allowance for the object with which it had originated, and in ...

— Our Mutual Friend • Charles Dickens

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