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

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witness + -eth

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Examples

  • The Spirit in the word witnesseth: the Spirit in the word says, he who is qualified, who is a hater of sin and a lover of holiness, is

    The Lord's Prayer 1692

  • And when he came to the gate, as, Leo witnesseth, which is called

    The Golden Legend, vol. 4 1230-1298 1900

  • Again, Philologus witnesseth which is the truth of Christ,

    A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 6 William Carew Hazlitt 1873

  • One of the sheets has huge writing that says 'witnesseth' and then some other stuff I wasn't close enough to see. "

    The Burning City Niven, Larry 2000

  • Where towering pyramids of skulls her glory witnesseth.

    Archive 2010-05-01 Blue Tyson 2010

  • Experience witnesseth that ecclesiastical establishments, instead of maintaining the purity and efficacy of religion, have had a contrary operation.

    Think Progress » ThinkFast: April 9, 2010 2010

  • Communities do not want to be repositories for nuclear waste- witnesseth the Yucca Mountain debacle and EPA's insidious attempt to expand the range of acceptable contamination through drift from 3 to 11 miles...

    Climate-friendly investing... with nuclear? | The Greenwash Brigade | Marketplace from American Public Media 2008

  • Eugubinus in his consultations, found it (as he there witnesseth) often verified by experience, [2858] that after a deal of physic to no purpose, left to themselves, they have recovered.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Qui mala non fert, ipse sibi testis est per impatientiam quod bonus non est, he that cannot bear injuries, witnesseth against himself that he is no good man, as

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Galen takes exception at mutton, but without question he means that rammy mutton, which is in Turkey and Asia Minor, which have those great fleshy tails, of forty-eight pounds weight, as Vertomannus witnesseth, navig. lib.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

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