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  • verb archaic Third-person singular simple present indicative form of continue.

Etymologies

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From continue +‎ -eth, the archaic third-person singular present tense suffix

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Examples

  • And (the relator continueth) as for Kanmakan, he became unique in loveliness and excelling in perfection no less; none could even him in qualities as in seemliness and the sheen of velour between his eyes was espied, testifying for him while against him it never testified.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • He that continueth in the doctrine the same hath both the Father and the Son.

    Archive 2006-09-01 Francis 2006

  • He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.

    Illustrations of The Book of Job 2008

  • Whosoever revolteth, and continueth not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not God.

    Archive 2006-09-01 Francis 2006

  • He that continueth in the doctrine the same hath both the Father and the Son.

    Oath of Truth Francis 2006

  • He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.

    Illustrations of The Book of Job 2008

  • And he continueth to repeat his praises in words I remember not, saying at the end of his panegyric, ‘This is the King owning the crown whose like nor Solomon nor the Mihraj88 ever possessed.’

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Whosoever revolteth, and continueth not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not God.

    Oath of Truth Francis 2006

  • Nevertheless it is to be noted, that unworthy persons are most envied, at their first coming in, and afterwards overcome it better; whereas contrariwise, persons of worth and merit are most envied, when their fortune continueth long.

    The Essays 2007

  • Of the conduct of the worldly minded Pumblechook while this was doing, I desire to say no more than it was all addressed to me; and that even when those noble passages were read which remind humanity how it brought nothing into the world and can take nothing out, and how it fleeth like a shadow and never continueth long in one stay,

    Great Expectations 2007

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