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

Etymologies

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breathe +‎ -eth

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Examples

  • His other reasons are: — first, “That the grammar or letter of the phrase breatheth not the least air of such a sense.”

    The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed 1616-1683 1966

  • "But of the cities of these people, which the Lord thy God doth give thee for an inheritance, thou shalt save nothing that breatheth; But thou shalt utterly destroy them; namely, the Hittites, and the Amorites, the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites; as the Lord thy God hath commanded it."

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009

  • Read 20: 16-17 - "But of the cities of these people, which the Lord thy God doth give thee for an inheritance, thou shalt save nothing that breatheth; But thou shalt utterly destroy them; namely, the Hittites, and the Amorites, the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites; as the Lord thy God hath commanded it."

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009

  • Bulukiya, that Hell514 of the greatness of her boiling, breatheth twice a year, expiring in the summer and inspiring in the winter, and hence the summer heat and winter cold.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • First he breathed light, upon the face of the matter or chaos; then he breathed light, into the face of man; and still he breatheth and inspireth light, into the face of his chosen.

    The Essays 2007

  • If one does not put to death any of them that falls into one's power, one transgresses a negative commandment, as it is said: Thou skalt save alive nothing that breatheth. '

    The God Delusion Dawkins, Richard, 1941- 2006

  • Sweet Summer-spring that breatheth life and growing,

    Clear or Cloudy John Dowland 2006

  • But of the cities of these people, which the LORD thy God doth give thee for an inheritance, thou shalt save alive nothing that breatheth:

    Villaraigosa And Nunez Cut And Run - Video Report 2006

  • But of the cities of these people, which the LORD thy God doth give thee for an inheritance, thou shalt save alive nothing that breatheth:

    Probably Just One Of Those Funny Coincidences 2006

  • Hence believers do sometimes find a greater evidence of his gracious working in them in prayer, or of his assistance to pray, as also enlargement in utterance, than at other times; for in both he breatheth and acteth as he pleaseth.

    Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967

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