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- verb archaic Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
bless .
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Examples
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God therein blesseth them, and, if it be not their own fault it will be an eternal blessedness to them.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John) 1721
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Proverbs 27.14: “He that blesseth his freind with a loud voice, rising early in the morning, it shall be counted a curse to him.”
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"All the earth cries out upon Truth, and the heaven blesseth it; ill works shake and tremble at it, and with it is no unrighteous thing."
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"All the earth cries out upon Truth, and the heaven blesseth it; ill works shake and tremble at it, and with it is no unrighteous thing."
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Your favourite science has her own great aims independent of all others; and if, notwithstanding her steady devotion to her own progress, she can scatter such rich alms among her sisters, it should be remembered that her charity is of the sort that does not impoverish, but “blesseth him that gives and him that takes.”
Essays 2007
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Let people serve thee, and nations bow down to thee: be lord over thy brethren, and let thy mother's sons bow down to thee: cursed be every one that curseth thee, and blessed be he that blesseth thee.
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Blessed is he that blesseth thee, and cursed is he that curseth thee.
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Let people serve thee, and nations bow down to thee: be lord over thy brethren, and let thy mother's sons bow down to thee: cursed be every one that curseth thee, and blessed be he that blesseth thee.
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For they are poets by the free course which they allow to the informing soul, which through their eyes beholdeth again and blesseth the things which it hath made.
Uncollected Prose 2006
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"He visiteth the earth, and maketh it soft with showers: He blesseth the springing thereof, and crowneth the year with His goodness; so that the pastures are clothed with flocks, and the valleys are covered over with corn."
A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge, by George Berkeley 2006
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