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

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increase + -eth

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Examples

  • He that by unjust gain increaseth his substance shall gather it for him that will pity the poor, Prov. xxviii.

    Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon) 1721

  • 8 He that by usury and unjust gain increaseth his substance, he shall gather it for him that will pity the poor.

    Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon) 1721

  • Quite a long diary entry from yesterday, but I particularly loved these two bits which appealed in different ways to my appreciation of the history of science: at noon to Sir Philip Warwicke's to dinner, where abundance of company come in unexpectedly; and here I saw one pretty piece of household stuff, as the company increaseth, to put a larger leaf upon an oval table.

    Samuel Pepys is amazed nwhyte 2008

  • Yet at times it seems to me as if we have simply democratized "information anxiety" instead, since, in the prescient words of Francis Bacon, "he that increaseth knowledge increaseth anxiety."

    Randall Amster: Tomorrow's Info Today: Staying Ahead of the News Cycle 2009

  • Indeed, wakefulness agitateth me and melancholy increaseth on me and I have no patience to endure the absence of thee

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Longsome is absence, restlessness increaseth and despite;

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Q “And which is the purest hearted of them?” — “He who is most assiduous in preparing for death and praising the Lord and least of them in hope, and indeed he who penetrateth his soul with the awful ways of death is as one who looketh into a clear mirror, for that he knoweth the truth, and the mirror still increaseth in clearness and brilliance.”

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Longsome is absence, restlessness increaseth, vii.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Ecclesiastes seems to have had the same thought in his mind, when he says, “He who increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.”

    The Ethics 2007

  • For in like manner, when the stubbornness of one popular man is overcome with reward, there arise many more by the example, that do the same mischief in hope of like benefit: and as all sorts of manufacture, so also malice increaseth by being vendible.

    Leviathan 2007

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