let us
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See also: lētus
English
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Audio (Mid-Atlantic US): (file) - Homophone: lettuce
Verb
[edit]let us (third-person singular simple present lets us, present participle letting us, simple past and past participle let us)
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see let, us.
- Alternative form of let's
- 1820, [Walter Scott], chapter I, in The Abbot. […], volume III, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne & Co.] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and for Archibald Constable and Company, and John Ballantyne, […], →OCLC, page 29:
- “Speak no more on’t,” she said; “and now let us part, our conversation may attract more notice than is convenient for either of us.”
- 1855, Joseph Bingham, The antiquities of the Christian church, page 219:
- Let us pray for the whole episcopate or company of bishops under heaven.