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

Etymologies

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awake +‎ -eth

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Examples

  • Q “What should a man do when he awaketh from sleep?”

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • So he sleepeth and wotteth not whither she goeth, nor what she doeth; but we know that after giving him the drugged wine, she donneth her richest raiment and perfumeth herself and then she fareth out from him to be away till break of day; then she cometh to him, and burneth a pastile under his nose and he awaketh from his deathlike sleep.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • He retorted, “Nay; but he told me that the mosquitoes of that saloon molest not bearded men, but sting those only who have no hair on face, and that whenever he hath for guest one who is beard less, the stranger awaketh complaining of the mosquito bites; whereas an he have a beard, there befalleth him naught of this.”

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • “Who is this Religious?” asked the chief of the caravan, and the door-keeper answered, “There is with us a holy woman, a clean maid and a comely, called Rajihah, to whom they present whoso hath any ailment; and he passeth a single night in her house and awaketh on the morrow, whole and ailing nothing.”

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • The wood-wife laughed: Well, she said, thou shalt not see over-much of me in this shape; and that the less because of something I shall now tell thee, to wit, that I have been thinking the matter over, and I would have thee leave us twain together alone before the young man awaketh.

    The Water of the Wondrous Isles 2007

  • As a dream when one awaketh; so, O Lord, when thou awakest, thou shalt despise their image.

    Villaraigosa And Nunez Cut And Run - Video Report 2006

  • As a dream when one awaketh; so, O Lord, when thou awakest, thou shalt despise their image.

    Probably Just One Of Those Funny Coincidences 2006

  • Psalm 73:20 - As a dream when one awaketh; so, O Lord, when thou awakest, thou shalt despise their image.

    Archive 2006-02-19 Diane Silver 2006

  • Psalm 73:20 - As a dream when one awaketh; so, O Lord, when thou awakest, thou shalt despise their image.

    Yet another Fred Phelps commentary - or - Aren't there times when we should all be quiet? Diane Silver 2006

  • But at last it cometh and awaketh and devoureth and engulfeth whatever hath built tabernacles upon it.

    Thus spake Zarathustra; A book for all and none 2001

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