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

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obtain + -eth

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Examples

  • There is due from the judge to the advocate, some commendation and gracing, where causes are well handled and fair pleaded; especially towards the side which obtaineth not; for that upholds in the client, the reputation of his counsel, and beats down in him the conceit of his cause.

    The Essays 2007

  • Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favour of the LORD.

    Probably Just One Of Those Funny Coincidences 2006

  • Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favour of the LORD.

    Villaraigosa And Nunez Cut And Run - Video Report 2006

  • Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favor of the LORD.

    Proverbs 18. 1999

  • A good man obtaineth favor of the LORD: but a man of wicked devices will he condemn.

    Proverbs 12. 1999

  • The latter likewise with his rime striketh a certaine Musicke to the ear: and in fine, since it dooth delight, though by an other way, it obtaineth the same purpose, there being in either sweetnesse, and wanting in neither, majestie.

    Defence of Poesie 1992

  • Secondly, That what persons soever the one respecteth, in the good things it obtaineth, the same, all, and none else, doth the other respect, in applying the good things so obtained; for β€œhe was delivered for our offences, and was raised again for our justification,” Rom. iv.

    The Death of Death in the Death of Christ 1616-1683 1967

  • If Pandu's son now obtaineth the kingdom as his inheritance from Pandu, his son will obtain it after him and that son's son also, and so on will it descend in Pandu's line.

    The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Translated into English Prose Adi Parva Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli

  • The virtuous man who with reverence heareth it or causeth it to be heard, obtaineth the fruit of the

    The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Translated into English Prose Adi Parva Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli

  • "He who duly readeth this account of the birth of all high-souled creatures in the presence of the gods and Brahmanas, obtaineth large progeny, good fortune, and fame, and attaineth also to excellent worlds hereafter. '"

    The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Translated into English Prose Adi Parva Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli

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