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- verb Present participle of
affoord .
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Examples
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Leaving a Waxe Taper lighted in the Chamber, the slaves departed, and then shee sweetly embracing Salabetto, bestowed those further favours on him, which hee came for, and she was not squeamish in the affoording; wherof he was exceedingly joyfull, because he imagined, that they proceeded from the integrity of her affection towards him.
The Decameron 2004
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Alexandria, fortuned into many places, yet none of them affoording him any advancement.
The Decameron 2004
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Now where my rawer youth brought foorth those female fruites, my riper yeeres affoording me I cannot say a braine-babe
Shakespeare's Lost Years in London, 1586-1592 Arthur Acheson 1897
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(on all sides) from any high way, plentifully stored with faire spreading Trees, affoording no meane delight to the eye.
The Decameron 2004
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"The time most apt in all the yeare, and affoording greatest
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