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

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fare +‎ -eth

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Examples

  • And there on the wall my father's blood still leaves a deep dark stain, while his murderer mounts the dead man's car and fareth forth, proudly grasping in his blood-stained hands the sceptre with which Agamemnon would marshal the sons of Hellas.

    Electra 2008

  • “Who is the owner of this palace and lord over you girls?” and quoth they, “King Salsál, son of Dal, is our master; he passeth a night here once in every month and fareth in the morning to rule over the tribes of the Jann.”

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Patience hath fled, but passion fareth not v. 358.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • So fareth, so goodeth, Sister Ann. When we're through with that Pagan woman, the voters will thinketh she be one of us.

    Matt Mendelsohn: McCain: A Tragedy in Three Scenes 2008

  • 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

  • And there on the wall my father's blood still leaves a deep dark stain, while his murderer mounts the dead man's car and fareth forth, proudly grasping in his blood-stained hands the sceptre with which Agamemnon would marshal the sons of Hellas.

    Electra 2008

  • Nay more, you shall have atheists strive to get disciples, as it fareth with other sects.

    The Essays 2007

  • For that boat, the thing which thou didst find, and for which thou didst suffer, is called the Sending Boat, and therein thy mistress fareth time and again, I deem to seek to some other of her kind, but I know not unto whom, or whereto.

    The Water of the Wondrous Isles 2007

  • “How fareth Siegfried, from whom so much of gladness hath happed to me?”

    The Nibelungenlied 2007

  • Sir Launcelot dread no perils; for ever a man of worship and of prowess dreadeth least always perils, for they ween every man be as they be; but ever he that fareth with treason putteth oft a man in great danger.

    Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table 2003

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