Pries
//pɹaɪz// verb
verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Verb
- 1 third-person singular simple present indicative of pry form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Example
More examples"Nothing is more wretched than a man who traverses everything in a round, and pries into the things beneath the earth, as the poet says, and seeks by conjecture what is in the minds of his neighbours, without perceiving that it is sufficient to attend to the demon within him, and to reverence it sincerely."
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