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

Etymologies

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pay +‎ -eth

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Examples

  • The wicked borroweth, and payeth not again: but the righteous sheweth mercy, and giveth.

    Fret Not 2009

  • “Verily, this man is an Infidel who payeth tribute and claimeth our protection283 and he asketh me for a draught of water; by Allah, I will not baulk him!” —

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Captain Holland was happy to make others goeth, but not to let them payeth.

    The Blackstone Key Rose Melikan 2008

  • Captain Holland was happy to make others goeth, but not to let them payeth.

    The Blackstone Key Rose Melikan 2008

  • Captain Holland was happy to make others goeth, but not to let them payeth.

    The Blackstone Key Rose Melikan 2008

  • To the office of a redeemer, that is, of one that payeth the ransom of sin, which ransom is death, it appertaineth that he was sacrificed, and thereby bore upon his own head and carried away from us our iniquities, in such sort as God had required.

    Leviathan 2007

  • But when the impositions are laid upon those things which men consume, every man payeth equally for what he useth; nor is the

    Leviathan 2007

  • The wicked borroweth, and payeth not again: but the righteous sheweth mercy, and giveth.

    Villaraigosa And Nunez Cut And Run - Video Report 2006

  • The wicked borroweth, and payeth not again: but the righteous sheweth mercy, and giveth.

    Probably Just One Of Those Funny Coincidences 2006

  • The people of this countrey say, that they haue one duetie inioyned vnto them by their lord: for euery fire payeth one

    The Journal of Friar Odoric 2004

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