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- verb archaic Second-person singular simple present form of
afford .
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Examples
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Doubt not he will ruin thee, if thou affordest him a pretext so fair as thy protection of a Jewish sorceress.
Ivanhoe 2004
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Doubt not he will ruin thee, if thou affordest him a pretext so fair as thy protection of a Jewish sorceress.
Ivanhoe 1892
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We might well be lifted up above the earth and say, Lord, what music hast thou provided for the saints in heaven, when thou affordest bad men such music on earth?
Dickey Downy The Autobiography of a Bird Virginia Sharpe Patterson 1877
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Helicon, where I am nourished; Mountain, that affordest me a quiet dwelling-place; Muses, that inspire me with profound doctrines;
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 6 Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle 1864
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Doubt not he will ruin thee, if thou affordest him a pretext so fair as thy protection of a Jewish sorceress.
Ivanhoe. A Romance 1819
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Thanks, thanks for the hope thou affordest, that we
The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes Thomas Moore 1815
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Doubt not he will ruin thee, if thou affordest him a pretext so fair as thy protection of
Ivanhoe Walter Scott 1801
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Mountain, that affordest me a quiet dwelling-place!
The Heroic Enthusiasts (Gli Eroici Furori) Part the First An Ethical Poem Giordano Bruno 1574
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_ [184] so, in thy good time, carry me up to these mountains of which even in this valley thou affordest me a prospect, the mountain where thou dwellest, the holy hill, unto which none can ascend _but he that hath clean hands_, which none can have but by that one and that strong way of making them clean, in the blood of thy Son Christ Jesus.
Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions Together with Death's Duel John Donne 1601
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Lord, what music hast thou provided for the saints in heaven, when thou affordest bad men such music on earth! "
The Compleat Angler : or, The Contemplative Man`s Recreation 1653
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