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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
dispend .
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Examples
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And you, reader, know as well as I do, that when a sovereign or a shilling is once broken into, the change scatters and dispends itself in a way quite unaccountable.
What Will He Do with It? — Volume 03 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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And you, reader, know as well as I do, that when a sovereign or a shilling is once broken into, the change scatters and dispends itself in a way quite unaccountable.
What Will He Do with It? — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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Mr. Whitehead’s fiction is thus paradigmatically “racial” only insofar as it suspends, dispends and upends static racial markers.
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