Definition of "returnest" [returnest]

• Second-person singular simple present form of return (verb)

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• "Dust to dust, or from the poem, to dust returnest…. that dust might as well help the flowers grow."
• "Arcadians; and when thou returnest thence to the city of Athens, submit to be brought to trial by "the Avenging Three" for thy mother's murder, for the gods will be umpires between you and will pass a most righteous sentence on thee upon the hill of Ares, where thou art to win thy case."
• "But thou departest from us at peep of day and returnest not to us till sundown, wherefore there betideth us extreme desolation."