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belike
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tags: [archaic]
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Definition:perhaps; probably
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Well, well; belike the whole world’s a ball, as you scholars have it; and so ’tis right to make one ballroom of it. Dance on, lads, you’re young; I was once.
Herman Melville. Moby Dick (1851)
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This Carpenter, hadde wedded newe a wẏf
Which þt he louede, moore than his lẏf
Of ·xviij· ẏeer, she was of age
Ialous he was, and heeld hire narwe in Cage
For she was wilde and ẏong, and he was old
And demed hẏm self, been lẏk a Cokewold
Geoffrey Chaucer. The Canterbury Tales, p. 96
Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales
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"Belike," quoth Camilla, "he hath either espied some new faults in the women of England, whereby he seeks to absent himself, or some old haunt that will cause him to spoil himself."
John Lyly. Euphues and his England (1580)
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Hamlet: Ah, ha! — Come, some music! Come, the recorders! — For if the king like not the comedy, Why then, belike he likes it not, perdy.
William Shakespeare. Hamlet
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