Meaning & use
Durst
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An archaic past tense and past participle of 'dare,' meaning dared.
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No one durst speak against the king in his own court.
She durst not open the letter for fear of what it might say.
A note on using this word
'Durst' was common in Early Modern English and is now found mainly in poetry, older literature, and deliberately archaic or dialectal speech.
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