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quoth [ kwōth ]

transitive verb

Definition:

said: said ( archaic or literary ) ( 1st and 3rd person singular, before the subject )

"I swoon," quoth he.

[ Old English cwað, the past tense of cweþan "to say" (source of English bequeath)]

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