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  • verb archaic Third-person singular present simple form of trample

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trample +‎ -eth

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Examples

  • But the most magnanimous resolution rests in the Christian religion, which trampleth upon pride and sits on the neck of ambition, humbly pursuing that infallible perpetuity, unto which all others must diminish their diameters, and be poorly seen in angles of contingency.

    Hydriotaphia, or Urn-burial 2007

  • The encounter thou speakest of with those two excellent youths -- the younger Pandavas -- is like unto the act of a fool that wantonly trampleth on the tails of two venomous black cobras with bifurcated tongues.

    The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli

  • There is no concession to such pedantries as Professor Robertson Smith's “greaves of the warrior that stampeth in the fray,” or such barbarisms as Professor Cheynes '“boot of him that trampleth noisily.”

    Matthew Arnold Russell, G W E 1904

  • Happy are you if, when the world trampleth upon you in your credit and good name, you are yet the King's gold and stamped with His image.

    Samuel Rutherford Whyte, Alexander 1894

  • The words are those of one who teacheth rather than reproveth, instructeth rather than chasteneth, who composeth to order rather than exposeth, who amendeth rather than trampleth on him.

    NPNF1-12. Saint Chrysostom: Homilies on the Epistles of Paul to the Corinthians Editor 1889

  • But the most magnanimous resolution rests in the Christian religion, which trampleth upon pride, and sits on the neck of ambition, humbly pursuing that infallible perpetuity, unto which all others must diminish their diameters, and be poorly seen in angles of contingency.

    The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume III (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland I Various 1885

  • Happy are you if, when the world trampleth upon you in your credit and good name, you are yet the King's gold and stamped with His image.

    Samuel Rutherford and some of his correspondents Alexander Whyte 1878

  • Lancelot smiteth him amidst the breast so grimly that he maketh him bend backwards over the saddle behind, and so beareth him to the ground, legs uppermost, over his horse's croup, and trampleth him under his horse's feet.

    The High History of the Holy Graal Anonymous 1869

  • He overtaketh him and trampleth him under his horses feet so that he bursteth his belly in the midst.

    The High History of the Holy Graal Anonymous 1869

  • But the most magnanimous resolution rests in the Christian religion, which trampleth upon pride and sits on the neck of ambition, humbly pursuing that infallible perpetuity unto which all others must diminish their diameters, and be poorly seen in angles of contingency.

    Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 6 Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle 1864

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