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plural wantes
Obsolete spelling of want quotations examples
But they still followed them by guess, hopeing to find their dwellings; but they soone lost both them & them selves, falling into shuch thickets as were ready to tear their cloaths & armore in peeces, but were most distressed for wante of drinke.
1733, Various, Great Epochs in American History, Vol. II
third-person singular simple present wantes or wanteth, present participle wanting, simple past and past participle wanted
I trow you must excomunicate me, or els you must goe without their companie, or we shall wante no quareling; but let them pass.
1621, Azel Ames, The Mayflower and Her Log, Complete
We shall soner wante our Fathers and Senatours, then they their plebeian officers.
1890, William Painter, The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1