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of
/ɔv/
prep 5name 4noun 3verb 1
Collocations
5ADJ.
afraid, all, all, certain, continuing, dark, done, done
VERB + OF
am, ascend, called, form, having, influenced, outline, place
OF + NOUN
armathye, delicacy, door, everything, feelings, freezer, gentyl, government
PREP.
after, except, from, from, on, out
ADV.
always, indeed, indeed, instead, then
Definitions
prep
1
Expressing distance or motion.
Take the chicken out of the freezer.
Sir said Galahad by this shelde ben many merueils fallen / Sir sayd the knyght hit befelle after the passion of our lord Ihesu Crist xxxij yere that Ioseph of Armathye the gentyl knyghte / the whiche took doune oure lord of the hooly Crosse att that tyme he departed from Iherusalem with a grete party of his kynred with hym
2
Expressing distance or motion.
He hasn't been well of late.
And he axed his father: howe longe is it agoo, sens this hath happened hym? And he sayde, of a chylde.
3
Expressing distance or motion.
There are no shops within twenty miles of the cottage.
Though Washington does not officially recognize Moscow, the Hoover Administration permits a Soviet Russian Information Bureau to flourish in a modest red brick house on Massachusetts Avenue, within a mile of the White House.
4
Expressing separation.
Finally she was relieved of the burden of caring for her sick husband.
And ther with on his handes and on his knees he wente soo nyghe that he touched the holy vessel / and kyste hit / and anone he was hole / and thenne he sayd lord god I thanke the / for I am helyd of this sekenesse
5
Expressing separation.
He seemed devoid of human feelings.
But schemes are perfectly accidental: some will appear barren of hints and matter, but prove to be fruitful […]
verb
1
Eye dialect spelling of have and 've, chiefly in depictions of colloquial speech.
I have refrained from giving many details which I might of done, from feelings of delicacy; indeed, they were of so dark and dreadful a nature, that I could do no more than hint at them
"I had a woman up here last week to look at my feet, and when she have been the bill you'd of thought she had my appendicitus out."
name
1
Initialism of Old French.
2
Initialism of Old Frisian.
3
Abbreviation of OnlyFans.
4
Initialism of Ordinary Form.
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Example Bank
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Take the chicken out of the freezer.
Wiktionary02
Sir said Galahad by this shelde ben many merueils fallen / Sir sayd the knyght hit befelle after the passion of our lord Ihesu Crist xxxij yere that Ioseph of Armathye the gentyl knyghte / the whiche
Wiktionary03
Against headache, vertigo, vapours which ascend forth of the stomach to molest the head, read Hercules de Saxonia and others.
Wiktionary04
I have refrained from giving many details which I might of done, from feelings of delicacy; indeed, they were of so dark and dreadful a nature, that I could do no more than hint at them
Wiktionary05
"I had a woman up here last week to look at my feet, and when she have been the bill you'd of thought she had my appendicitus out."
Wiktionary06
‘You must of left your door unlocked. Or even open.’
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