durst

simple past and past participle of dare

Verb

  1. simple past and past participle of dare
    • Traditional rhyme Four and twenty tailors went to kill a snail; the best man among them durst not touch her tail.
    • Pretty soul! She durst not lie / Near this lack-love, this kill-courtesy. - c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies:...
    • That thou durst, Arcite! - 1613–1614 (date written), John Fletcher, William Shak[e]speare, The Two Noble Kinsmen: […], London: […] Tho[mas] Cotes, for Iohn Waterson; […], published 1634, →OCLC, Act I, scene iii, page 2:

Derived

durstn't dursn't dursen't