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- noun Obsolete spelling of
groan . - verb Obsolete spelling of
groan .
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Examples
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She hearing these words delivered with an entire sighe, and deepe-fetcht groane, did not imagine the strange consequence following thereon; yet was mooved to much compassion, in regard of her former affection to him.
The Decameron 2004
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Indians bringing the sick to be healed by the master pirate's touch, -- "_we groane in spirit to see the power of Sathan so farre prevails_."
Vikings of the Pacific The Adventures of the Explorers who Came from the West, Eastward 1903
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[701] Bot the spirite of God, quhilk gives witnessing to our spirite, that we are the sonnes of God, [702] makis us to resist filthie plesures, and to groane in Gods presence, for deliverance fra this bondage of corruption; [703] and finally to triumph over sin, that it reygne not in our mortal bodyis.
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Then rolled that knyght his bloudy een, and answered with a groane, --
A Little Book of Western Verse Eugene Field 1872
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Then all with their rattles began a song, which ended, the chiefe Priest layd downe five wheat cornes: then strayning his arms and hands with such violence that he sweat, and his veynes swelled, he began a short Oration: at the conclusion they all gave a short groane; and then layd downe three graines more.
Captain John Smith Charles Dudley Warner 1864
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Then all with their rattles began a song, which ended, the chiefe Priest layd downe five wheat cornes: then strayning his arms and hands with such violence that he sweat, and his veynes swelled, he began a short Oration: at the conclusion they all gave a short groane; and then layd downe three graines more.
The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner Charles Dudley Warner 1864
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Made her groane a moneth for't; or 2. or 3. or 10.
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Their devotion was most in songs, which the chiefe Priest beginneth and the rest followed him, sometimes he maketh invocations with broken sentences by starts and strange passions, and at every pause, the rest giue a short groane.
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Then all with their rattles began a song, which ended, the chiefe Priest layd downe fiue wheat cornes: then strayning his armes and hands with such violence that he sweat, and his veynes swelled, he began a short Oration: at the conclusion they all gaue a short groane; and then layd down three graines more.
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I, he, he offered to cut a caper at the proclama-tion, but he made a groane at it, and swore he would see her to morrow.
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