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- verb archaic Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
amaze .
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Examples
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It amazeth many men that are to speak, or show themselves in public assemblies, or before some great personages, as Tully confessed of himself, that he trembled still at the beginning of his speech; and Demosthenes, that great orator of Greece, before Philippus.
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But this continuation of Bridlegoose for so many years still hitting the nail on the head, never missing the mark, and always judging aright, by the mere throwing of the dice and chance thereof, is that which most astonisheth and amazeth me.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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But this continuation of Bridlegoose for so many years still hitting the nail on the head, never missing the mark, and always judging aright, by the mere throwing of the dice and chance thereof, is that which most astonisheth and amazeth me.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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The subsistence of his most single and simple nature in three distinct persons, though it raises and ennobles faith in its revelation, yet it amazeth reason which would trust to itself in the contemplation of it — whence men grow giddy who will own no other guide, and are carried out of the way of truth.
Christologia 1616-1683 1965
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It hath been sent down in a manner that amazeth the minds of men.
God Passes By 1897-1957 Shoghi Effendi 1927
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Which steals mens eyes and womens souls amazeth.
Sonnet 20 1914
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Which steals men's eyes and women's souls amazeth.
The Man Shakespeare Harris, Frank, 1855-1931 1909
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Which steals men's eyes and women's souls amazeth.
The Man Shakespeare Frank Harris 1893
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It hath been sent down in a manner that amazeth the minds of men.
The Kitáb-i-Aqdas 1817-1892 Bah��'u'll��h 1854
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When I consider the wilds, the forests, the lakes, the rocks -- and the spirits in which you must have whispered to their startled echoes, it amazeth me how you escaped.
Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume I (of 10) 1824
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