verb
- second person singular past tense of 'have' in archaic or biblical English
Usage: archaic; used with 'thou' as the subject; found in King James Bible and early modern English literature
Examples
- Thou haddest no right to take that which was not thine.
- If thou haddest known the truth, thou wouldst have acted differently.
- Haddest thou been there, thou wouldst have witnessed the miracle.
- He asked if thou haddest completed thy work.
- In the old text, it read: 'Thou haddest received the blessing.'