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

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Examples

  • "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

  • Bless the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits: who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases; who redeemeth thy life from destruction; who crowneth thee with loving-kindness and tender mercies; who satisfieth thy mouth with good things; so that thy youth is renewed like the eagle's.

    Psalms 103. 1999

  • Those which he accepts are supernatural effects of his own Spirit in us, whereon he rewardeth and crowneth the fruits of his own grace; and as for what he rejects, whatever appearance it may have of a compliance with the outward command, it hath nothing in it that is supernaturally gracious, and so is not of the same kind with what he doth accept.

    Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967

  • God at once in this sense “forgiveth all their iniquities, and healeth all their diseases, redeemeth their life from destruction, and crowneth them with loving-kindness and tender mercies,” Ps. ciii.

    The Doctrine of Justification by Faith 1616-1683 1965

  • Who redeemeth thy life from destruction: who crowneth thee with mercy and compassion.

    The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete Anonymous

  • Who crowneth the year with goodness, who prospereth all thy labour,

    The Coming of the Princess and Other Poems Kate Seymour MacLean

  • Who redeemeth thy life from destruction: who crowneth thee with mercy and compassion.

    The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 21: Psalms The Challoner Revision

  • Heard it, and sang it, "He crowneth the Year with His goodness!"

    The Coming of the Princess and Other Poems Kate Seymour MacLean

  • Deeply touching were those fervent words read out with solemn earnestness and pathos by the young man, in the presence of those he loved so dearly, specially when he lingered on the third and fourth verses, "Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases; who redeemeth thy life from destruction; who crowneth thee with loving-kindness and tender mercies."

    Amos Huntingdon T.P. Wilson

  • Who redeemeth thy life from destruction: who crowneth thee with mercy and compassion.

    The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Old Testament — Part 2 Anonymous

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