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  • verb archaic Third-person singular present simple form of fulfil

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fulfil +‎ -eth

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Examples

  • But I have lain under as many of my kind as I please, and this wretched Jinni wotteth not that Des tiny may not be averted nor hindered by aught, and that whatso woman willeth the same she fulfilleth however man nilleth.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Father, but of the world: and the world passeth away and the lust thereof; but he that fulfilleth the will of God abideth for ever.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • For in that they require nothing but endeavour, he that endeavoureth their performance fulfilleth them; and he that fulfilleth the law is just.

    Leviathan 2007

  • But they of the country say that it is for to do reverence to their king, that is the most worthy king that is in the world as they say; because that he fulfilleth the commandment that God bade to Adam and Eve, when God said, CRESCITE ET MULTIPLICAMINI ET

    The Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • But I have lain under as many of my kind as I please, and this wretched Jinni wotteth not that Destiny may not be averted nor hindered by aught, and that whatso woman willeth, the same she fulfilleth however man nilleth.

    Tehran Winter Naipaul, V.S. 1981

  • God fulfilleth many mighty works, that could not otherwise be brought about, by hardening the hearts of men.

    The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968

  • And although instances hereof are given us principally among the people of God, yet wherever men in the world have been raised up to do great and wonderful things, whereby God executeth his judgments, [and] fulfilleth any of his promises or his threatenings, even they also have received of the especial gifts and assistances of the Holy Spirit of God.

    Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967

  • O sinful fool, he that displayeth his prowess relying on his own might and summoneth his foes (to battle) and fulfilleth his own words, even he is a man of the Kshatriya order!

    The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 2 Books 4, 5, 6 and 7 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli

  • Cursed be he that abideth not in the words of this law, and fulfilleth them not in work: and all the people shall say: Amen.

    The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete The Challoner Revision Anonymous

  • Cursed be he that abideth not in the words of this law, and fulfilleth them not in work: and all the people shall say: Amen.

    The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete Anonymous

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