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(modal, defective, auxiliary) Used in modesty, courtesy, or concession, or to soften a question or remark.
How old may Phillis be, you ask, / Whose Beauty thus all Hearts engages.
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(modal, defective, subjunctive, auxiliary) Used to express a wish (takes a simple bare infinitive with present subjunctive effect).
may you win; may the weather be sunny
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(obsolete, intransitive) To be strong; to have power (over).
Meaning details(4)
(obsolete, auxiliary) To be able; can.
But many times[…]we give way to passions we may resist and will not.
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(intransitive, poetic) To be able to go.
O weary night, O long and tedious night,
Abate thy houres, shine comforts from the East,
That I may backe to Athens by day-light […].
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(modal, defective, auxiliary) To have permission to, to be allowed to. Used in granting permission and in questions to make polite requests; takes a simple bare infinitive.
you may smoke outside; may I sit there?
Meaning details(7)
(modal, defective, auxiliary) Used to express a present or future possibility; aspectually, this sense takes a simple, progressive/continuous or perfect bare infinitive.
he may be lying; Schrödinger's cat may or may not be in the box
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