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conjunction

Lest conj.

For fear that; that... not; in order that... not. "Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty." "Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall."

That (without the negative particle); after certain expressions denoting fear or apprehension. "I feared Lest I might anger thee."

noun

Lest n. Lust; desire; pleasure. (Obs.)

verb

Lest v. i. To listen. (Obs.)

adjective

Lest adj. Last; least. (Obs.)

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Etymology of 'Lest'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Lest" Quotes from Famous Books

... talent lest it should run away with them, and they neglect the rubrics, Dr. Newman was sensitive over musicians of the day setting to work upon liturgy. Of sorts of liberty taken we have modern examples in Gounod's Mors et Vita Oratorio, where O felix culpa, ...

— Cardinal Newman as a Musician • Edward Bellasis

... started and disappeared quicker than I could dismount. After a short circuit in search of the rhinoceros, we came upon a large herd of buffaloes, but at the same moment we heard elephants trumpeting at the foot of the mountains. Not wishing to fire, lest the great game should be disturbed, I contented myself with riding after the buffaloes, wonderfully followed on foot by Adda, who ran like a deer, and almost kept up with my horse, hurling his three lances successively at the buffaloes, ...

— The Albert N'Yanza, Great Basin of the Nile • Sir Samuel White Baker

... as I relate it here has been abbreviated very much, lest I tire my readers. I had scarcely closed speaking before my reverend opponents were making for the door. They would have nothing more to do with the Mormons. Some were honest enough, however, to acknowledge that Mormonism ...

— The Mormon Menace - The Confessions of John Doyle Lee, Danite • John Doyle Lee

... when they heard this latter assertion; for, at first, they began to be in some alarm lest there should be something wrong about this, and some of them get identified as being active in ...

— Varney the Vampire - Or the Feast of Blood • Thomas Preskett Prest

... his overwhelming defeat, Agostino hung his head mournfully, and stood like a statue of grief, dreading lest worse still should befall him, if the comedians, who were in too great force for him to attempt to struggle any longer against them, decided to take him on to the next town and deliver him over to the jailor to be locked up, as indeed ...

— Captain Fracasse • Theophile Gautier

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