Let be

verb

verb ·Uncommon ·Advanced level

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To not disturb or meddle with; to leave (someone or something) alone (see let it be). transitive

    "Will you never let me be?"

  2. 2
    To stop, to stop doing something; to leave off (now used alone, formerly also + infinitive). archaic, intransitive

    "Let be therefore my vengeaunce to disswade [...]."

  3. 3
    Used to assign a value to a symbol.

    "Let f be any real-valued function on I and g be any real-valued function on J."

Example

More examples

"Another answers, ‘Let him be, ⁠He loves to make parade of pain, ⁠That with his piping he may gain The praise that comes to constancy.’"