mote
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Is mote a Scrabble word?
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What is the meaning of mote?
Definition
noun (English)
1. (literary or puristic, otherwise archaic) A small particle; a speck.Examples: "Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother’s eye."; "What shall a Mote up to a Monarch rise? An Emmet match an Emperor in might?"; "I wanted to shrink myself to a mote of dust, plunge into this pool I held in my own cyclopean hands, soar down these runs of light to places where light itself was born from this colloquy of dust."Synonyms: modicum
verb (English)
1. (archaic) May or might.Examples: "he […] kept aloofe for dread to be descryde, / Untill fit time and place he mote espy, / Where he mote worke him scath and villeny."archaicno-present-participle
2. (obsolete) Must.no-present-participleobsolete
3. (archaic) Forming subjunctive expressions of wish: may.Examples: "‘I shall not take Vengeance into my own Hands. The Goddess will do what She will.’ ‘So mote it be,’ said the Grandmaster."archaicno-present-participle
noun (English)
1. (obsolete) A meeting for discussion.Examples: "a wardmote in the city of London"obsolete
2. (obsolete) A body of persons who meet for discussion, especially about the management of affairs.Examples: "a folk mote"obsolete
3. (obsolete) A place of meeting for discussion.obsolete
Definition source: Wiktionary