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5 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Lest \Lest\, n. [See List to choose.] Lust; desire; pleasure. [Obs.] --Chaucer. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Lest \Lest\, a. Last least. [Obs.] --Chaucer. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Lest \Lest\, conj. [OE. leste, fr AS [eth][=y] l[=ae]s [eth][=e] the less that where [eth][=y] is the instrumental case of the definite article, and [eth][=e] is an indeclinable relative particle, that who which See {The}, {Less}, a.] 1. For fear that that . . . not in order that . . . not Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty. --Prov. xx 13. Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall. --1 Cor. x. 12. 2. That (without the negative particle); -- after certain expressions denoting fear or apprehension. I feared Lest I might anger thee. --Shak. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Lest \Lest\ (l[e^]st), v. i. To listen. [Obs.] --Chaucer. Spenser. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: lest adv 1: for fear that "she tiptoed lest her mother should hear her" 2: that (after verbs explicitly expressing fear etc.); "he worried lest he should be late"
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