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let be (third-person singular simple present lets be, present participle letting be, simple past and past participle let be)
- (transitive) To not disturb or meddle with; to leave (someone or something) alone (see let it be).
Will you never let me be?
1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, , →OCLC, Canto XXI, page 35:Another answers, ‘Let him be,
He loves to make parade of pain,
That with his piping he may gain
The praise that comes to constancy.’
- (intransitive, archaic) To stop, to stop doing something; to leave off (now used alone, formerly also + infinitive).
- (mathematics) Used to assign a value to a symbol.
- Let f be any real-valued function on I and g be any real-valued function on J.
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