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A Writer's Dictionary:

lest Definition


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lest
conj
    formal or literary:
    1. In case.
      Example: speak quietly lest they hear us
    2. That.
      Example: worried lest we are late
Etymology: 13c: from Anglo-Saxon thy læs the the less that.



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