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- noun Plural form of
fonne .
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Examples
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Martin fetching a deepe figh: An withal), calling his fonnes, faid to them.
Typographical antiquities: an historical account of printing in England ... 1790
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A _fonne_ in Chaucer signifies a _fool_, and _fonnes -- fools_; and
The Rowley Poems Thomas Chatterton
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Decorn [24] wyth fonnes [25] rare, doe shemrynge [26] ryse;
The Rowley Poems Thomas Chatterton
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Martin te his troubled fonnes fayih/Nemo defper et meliora lapfus.
Typographical antiquities: an historical account of printing in England ... 1790
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They had the king with them, and fo haue L But euery eye the face of R i c h a r f fhunnet For that foule murder of his brothers fonnes.
Antient funeral monuments, of Great-Britain, Ireland, and the islands adjacent 1767
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As w'hen we fay that Chrift was made nun, to make vs the fonnes of Godrthis faying extendeih not to all men, becaufe faith is tlic meane which fpiriruaU ly gr. iftcth vs into the body of Chrift.
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Ofthc knowledge of fentece that wc baue alleaged out of the cpilHe to the Romaines, he fettctii out more largely m the Epiftle to the Galatians, when he ma - keth an allegory of y two fonnes of Abraham, after this manner, that Gah. 4.
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For (to fpcake nothing of Ifmacl and other) how came it to pafle that of the two fonnes of Ifaac, that is Efau and lacob, brethren borne at one birth, while they were yet together m their mothers wombe, the one was chofcnjthc other refufed?
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But who coulde hauc atteined vnto him? couldc any of the fonnes of Adam?
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InitviirgrrShl Here lyeth John Spelm an, cfquyre ( 'fonne and heirc apparent to fir John Spelman knyghte, one of the juftyces ai the pleas before the ky ng to bee holdcn, and dame Elisabeth his wyffe) which John married Margaret (one of the doughters to fir Thomas Blennerh asset knyght, and datne Mar - garet his wyfFe) and had iflue by the faid Margaret, too fonnes and too doughters liuing ac the day of his death; and deceflTed the xxvii day of December, in the yere of our lord God, M. ccccc:; 1v. on whos foul J e 5 u have mere/.
Antient funeral monuments, of Great-Britain, Ireland, and the islands adjacent 1767
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