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- verb archaic Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
dig .
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Examples
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"For I am a powerful and omniscient God who diggeth torture."
Archive 2009-04-26 SeattleDan 2009
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“Whoso for his brother diggeth a pit, he shall be the first to fall into it.”
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Sayer, ‘Whoso diggeth his brother a pit shall surely himself fall into it, albeit of long safety he have benefit.’
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Who longeth for death; but it cometh not; and diggeth for it more than for hid treasures?
Clarissa Harlowe 2006
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An ungodly man diggeth up evil: and in his lips there is as a burning fire.
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An ungodly man diggeth up evil: and in his lips there is as a burning fire.
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Whoso diggeth a pit shall fall therein: and he that rolleth a stone, it will return upon him.
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Whoso diggeth a pit shall fall therein: and he that rolleth a stone, it will return upon him.
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Whosoeuer therefore wanteth golde, diggeth till he hath found some quantitie, and then taking so much thereof as will serue his turne, he layeth vp the residue within the earth: because, if he should put it into his chest or storehouse, hee is of opinion that God would withholde from him all other gold within the earth.
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Whosoeuer therefore wanteth golde, diggeth till he hath found some quantitie, and then taking so much thereof as will serue his turne, he layeth vp the residue within the earth: because, if he should put it into his chest or storehouse, hee is of opinion that God would withholde from him all other gold within the earth.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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