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  • verb archaic Second-person singular simple present form of paint.

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Examples

  • And yet a man may guess what must have been, by that which thou paintest, when she suspected herself tricked, deserted, and betrayed, by the pretended ladies.

    Clarissa Harlowe 2006

  • Thou paintest the holy things overhead in the city of God.

    Great Artists, Vol 1. Raphael, Rubens, Murillo, and Durer Jennie Ellis Keysor

  • But when thou art spoiled what wilt thou do? though thou clothest thyself with scarlet, though thou deckest thee with ornaments of gold, and paintest thy eyes with stibic stone, thou shalt dress thyself out in vain: thy lovers have despised thee, they will seek thy life.

    The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 28: Jeremias The Challoner Revision

  • But when thou art spoiled what wilt thou do? though thou clothest thyself with scarlet, though thou deckest thee with ornaments of gold, and paintest thy eyes with stibic stone, thou shalt dress thyself out in vain: thy lovers have despised thee, they will seek thy life.

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

  • But when thou art spoiled what wilt thou do? though thou clothest thyself with scarlet, though thou deckest thee with ornaments of gold, and paintest thy eyes with stibic stone, thou shalt dress thyself out in vain: thy lovers have despised thee, they will seek thy life.

    The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete Anonymous

  • But when thou art spoiled what wilt thou do? though thou clothest thyself with scarlet, though thou deckest thee with ornaments of gold, and paintest thy eyes with stibic stone, thou shalt dress thyself out in vain: thy lovers have despised thee, they will seek thy life.

    The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Old Testament — Part 2 Anonymous

  • Moreover, when thou paintest anything in one colour -- be it red, blue, brown, or any mixed colour -- beware lest thou make it so bright in the lights that it departs from its own kind.

    Albert Durer T. Sturge Moore 1907

  • For example, thou paintest two coats of mantles, one white the other red; thou must deal differently with them in shading.

    Albert Durer T. Sturge Moore 1907

  • -- And yet a man may guess what must have been, by that which thou paintest, when she suspected herself tricked, deserted, and betrayed, by the pretended ladies.

    Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 6 Samuel Richardson 1725

  • "The chief of the House of Seti, Ameni, was in his youth such a man as thou paintest, Bent-Anat.

    Uarda : a Romance of Ancient Egypt — Volume 03 Georg Ebers 1867

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