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

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pine +‎ -eth

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Examples

  • And wheresoever he taketh him, he teareth him: and he foameth, and gnasheth with his teeth, and pineth away: and I spake to thy disciples that they should cast him out; and they could not.

    Villaraigosa And Nunez Cut And Run - Video Report 2006

  • And wheresoever he taketh him, he teareth him: and he foameth, and gnasheth with his teeth, and pineth away: and I spake to thy disciples that they should cast him out; and they could not.

    Probably Just One Of Those Funny Coincidences 2006

  • And one of the multitude answered and said, Master, I have brought unto thee my son, which hath a dumb spirit; and wheresoever he taketh him, he teareth him; and he foameth, and gnasheth with his teeth, and pineth away: and I spake to thy disciples that they should cast him out; and they could not.

    Mark 9. 1999

  • And one of the multitude answered and said, "Master, I have brought unto thee my son, which hath a dumb spirit; and wheresoever he taketh him he teareth him: and he foameth, and gnasheth with his teeth, and pineth away: and I spake to thy disciples that they should cast him out; and they could not."

    Jesus of Nazareth, A Biography, by John Mark

  • Days and nights he waiteth, and pineth after unearthly beauty.

    Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 340, February, 1844 Various

  • Who, wheresoever he taketh him, dasheth him: and he foameth and gnasheth with the teeth and pineth away.

    The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete The Challoner Revision Anonymous

  • Who, wheresoever he taketh him, dasheth him: and he foameth and gnasheth with the teeth and pineth away.

    The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 48: Mark The Challoner Revision

  • Who, wheresoever he taketh him, dasheth him: and he foameth and gnasheth with the teeth and pineth away.

    The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete Anonymous

  • Sudhanwan said, 'The person that misuseth his tongue suffers like the deserted wife, who pineth, at night, beholding her husband sleeping in the arms of a co-wife; like a person who hath lost at dice, or who is weighed down with an unbearable load of anxieties.

    The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 2 Books 4, 5, 6 and 7 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli

  • A young man is possessed of a spirit "who, wheresoever he taketh him, dasheth him, and he foameth, and gnasheth with his teeth, and pineth away, ... and oftentimes hath he [the spirit] cast him into the fire and into waters to destroy him" (Mark, ix, 17, 21).

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913

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