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

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need + -eth

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Examples

  • I say unto you, Though he will not rise and give him, because he is his friend, yet because of his importunity he will rise and give him as many as he needeth.

    Perseverance in prayer 2008

  • Now, many art the men who think they no longer needeth Pan.

    La insistencia de Jürgen Fauth 2010

  • Paul also wrote: "Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God" according to 2 Corinthians 1:1, upon extending yet some more fatherly and spiritual wisdom upon his friend and co-laborer, Timothy, in this same Second Epistle to Timothy, also wrote in Chapter 2, verse 15: "Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth."

    TEXAS FAITH: Obama, Congress, CEOs and leadership styles | RELIGION Blog | dallasnews.com 2010

  • Wali who, seeing the marks of blood on my hand said, ‘This needeth no proof: strike off his head!’ —

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Then the Prince put his mouth to her ear and said to her, O Shams al-Nahar, O seduction of the universe, have a care for thy life and mine and be patient and constant; for this our position needeth sufferance and skilful contrivance to make shift for our delivery from the tyrannical

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • There needeth no excuse; an thou had netted aught, it would be with thee; so seeing thee empty handed, I knew thou hadst gotten naught; and if tomorrow thou have no better luck, come and take bread and be not abashed, for I will give thee credit.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • The labourer in our common field of toil who is prudent, just, temperate, and brave, is indeed "A workman that needeth not to be ashamed " 2 Tim. ii.

    On Political Economy 2008

  • For having the protection of the Commonwealth, he needeth not the defence of private force.

    Leviathan 2007

  • For the matter of this nutriment consisting in animals, vegetables, and minerals, God hath freely laid them before us, in or near to the face of the earth, so as there needeth no more but the labour and industry of receiving them.

    Leviathan 2007

  • Gabriel (as the like apparitions made to other holy men in their sleep) was nothing but a supernatural phantasm, by which it seemed to Daniel in his dream that two saints being in talk, one of them said to the other, "Gabriel, let us make this man understand his vision": for God needeth not to distinguish his celestial servants by names, which are useful only to the short memories of mortals.

    Leviathan 2007

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