(obj.) The second personal pronoun, in the singular number, denoting the person addressed; thyself; the pronoun which is used in addressing persons in the solemn or poetical style.
(v. t.) To address as thou, esp. to do so in order to treat with insolent familiarity or contempt.
(v. i.) To use the words thou and thee in discourse after the manner of the Friends.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is my desperate hope that we close out of town.” In the book, God publishes his own 'It Getteth Better' video and clarifies his original writings on homosexuality: I remember dictating these lines to Moses; and afterward looking up to find him staring at me in wide-eyed astonishment, and saying, "Thou do knowest that when the Israelites read this, they're going to lose their fucking shit, right?"
(2) Constant ribbing about his private life was compromising Deayton's position as the show's "holier-than-thou" host, who showed no mercy towards politicians or celebrities caught in a similar position, the corporation added.
(3) Similarities between Kohut's empathic relatedness and Buber's I-Thou are demonstrated as well as some congruence in their clinical views.
(4) At CPAC, conservatives dedicated an entire panel to “The Future of Marriage.” One could be forgiven for assuming it tackled the issue via the sub-topic “Gays, and the Ickiness Thereof,” because that was the default assumption among those attending CPAC as part of an ongoing More Jaded Than Thou contest.
(5) "Lest any holier-than-thou activists and politicians from other parties should forget, this is not just a Lib Dem issue, it is one that confronts women in all parties and in all professions.
(6) Members of the group will be on church steps again on Sunday, just as they were last week when dozens of Polish Catholics walked out of mass in protest at a bishops’ message stating that abortion is contrary to the “thou shalt not kill” commandment.
(7) Worse, it actually helps deflect anger from the Nigerian politicians robbing their own people to the “hypocritical west which acts holier than thou while helping steal our money”.
(8) Basically the problem is that the full I-Thou form in terms of Buber and Gebsattel can no longer be realized.
(9) The lesson is clear: when push comes to shove, obedience to God trumps human decency, to say nothing of obedience to the next commandment, "Thou shalt not kill".
(10) Such was the thou-shalt-not-pass determination as Pavey clenched her teeth round the last lap that it was a minor wonder she was able to smile so quickly afterwards.
(11) It was headed with the following Shakespeare quotation: "To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man."
(12) Now he's a social-smoking, foodier-than-thou critic at a "Food Rave".
(13) Why you should listen : “Answer not a fool according to his folly,” it says in Proverbs, “lest thou also be like unto him.” Jones’s appearance on Rogan’s show is a cautionary tale.
(14) Winnicott's notion of the creation of the subject in the psychological space between mother and infant involves a conception of the on-going constitution of the subject in the simultaneity of forms of dialectical tension between at-one-ment and separateness, internality and externality, I and me, I and Thou.
(15) She had read Martin Buber 's I and Thou , and the collected works of Carl Jung , and become fascinated with archetypes and astrology.
(16) According to the late Peter Wright, whose book Spycatcher revealed many of the secrets that he had carefully hoarded during his 22 years as an MI5 officer, new recruits would be expected to take to heart its 11th commandment: "Thou shalt not get caught."
(17) Goop You wouldn't believe the vegan snack I've just had…Gwyneth Paltrow, creator of holier-than-thou lifestyle guide Goop.
(18) Even at a time when other aspects of foreign policy – such as over Iran – are breaking with blind whither-thou-goest Atlanticism, the ossified Orwellian terms of the nuclear discussion go unchallenged by government and opposition alike.
(19) And for the hopefuls lining up outside the passport office: thou shalt not quibble about freedom of speech.
(20) It's when Rosalind says to Celia: "O coz, coz, coz, my pretty little coz, that thou didst know how many fathom deep I am in love.
Thru
Definition:
(prep., adv. & a.) Through.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is thought that the mechanisms of resorption are: co-mingling with CSF and redistribution in the more acute variety and in instances of subdural hydromas; and thru the healing and reparative process in the chronic type.
(2) 1.16pm GMT NWS New York NY (@NWSNewYorkNY) Small band of moderate to even briefly hvy #snow dropping south thru W & central Suffolk.
(3) The coaA gene was transcribed in the opposite direction to the flanking genes birA and thrU and produced a single 1.1-kb transcript.
(4) Whether he’s belting Baby along with Justin Bieber or making jazz hands in the drive-thru with Jennifer Hudson, Corden is having more fun than anyone in late night.
(5) Keen viewers – and many Twitterers – also caught onto the show’s new product placement in a few later, lesser sketches – a bizarre stream of characters pulling through a Burger King drive-thru, then a robot sketch that prominently featured the Hondo logo.
(6) 1) Out of 112 death cases including 80 male and 32 female cases, 13 cases--younger than 15 years of age, 4 cases--16 thru 19, 12 cases--20 thru 29, 23 cases--30 thru 39, 22 cases--40 thru 49, 19 cases--50 thru 59, 8 cases--60 thru 69, and 13 cases--older than 70 years of age were specified respectively.
(7) No significant differences were found between groups in puretone thresholds for frequencies measured at octave intervals from 250 thru 8000 Hz.
(8) We conclude that a correlation between changes of the UAS-dependent activation of the thrU (tufB) operon and changes of the cellular FIS concentration under a variety of experimental conditions exists.
(9) The thrU(tufB) operon of Escherichia coli is endowed with a cis-acting region upstream of the promoter, designated UAS for Upstream Activator Sequence.
(10) And I once thought I saw him driving a pickup through a Sonic drive-thru and got surprisingly excited.
(11) Niwa Weather (@NiwaWeather) The region most impacted by #eqnz will have rough weather late today thru Tues.
(12) The aeration of sewage through shooting flow, biological oxidation combined with sediment action by passing thru reclining tubes is an effective way for the secondary treatment of hospital sewage.
(13) Rupert Murdoch (@rupertmurdoch) Global tech companies making enormous profits most places, funnelling $$ thru tax havens.
(14) With intraoperative fluoroscopy, the distal intra-abdominal esophageal segment was manipulated thru the esophageal hiatus.
(15) From March 1, 1979 thru September 30, 1984 we performed 56 cardiac transplants (Tx).
(16) This protein, which stimulates the inversion of various viral DNA segments, binds specifically to a cis-acting sequence (designated UAS) upstream of the promoter of thrU (tufB) and the P1 promoter of the rrnB operon.
(17) These data demonstrate that in this model, glomerular injury is dependent on complement components generated up thru C3 but not C5 or latter components.
(18) Use of an everting thru-lumen balloon catheter allowed successful percutaneous transluminal cholangioplasty in a patient with sclerosing cholangitis when conventional methods had failed.
(19) Local communities must realise the benefits thru tourism, hunting, cropping and death thru old age.
(20) We demonstrate that the E.coli protein FIS (Factor for Inversion Stimulation) also binds to the UAS of the thrU(tufB) operon forming three protein-DNA complexes.