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- verb archaic Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
puff .
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Examples
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So now I puffeth naught, except on very special occasions.
Fortune's Stanley Bing: Cell Phones May Cause Cancer? Who Cares? <i>Fortune</i>'s Stanley Bing 2011
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Brimstone was too eager for the knowledge that puffeth up.
Adam Bede 2004
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His ways are always grievous; thy judgments are far above out of his sight: as for all his enemies, he puffeth at them.
Psalms 10. 1999
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I will set him in safety from him that puffeth at him.
Psalms 12. 1999
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We have got a holiness that puffeth up, that in some hath little other fruit but "Stand from me; I am holier than thou."
The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968
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"We know that we all have knowledge," 1 Cor.viii. 1; -- and not only so, but he also adds that this knowledge is a thing which either in its own nature tends unto an ill issue or is very apt to be abused thereunto; for saith he, "Knowledge puffeth up," for which cause he frequently reflects upon it in ether places.
Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967
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It is not men's knowledge, but the vain and proud conceit of ignorant men, supposing themselves knowing and wise, that so puffeth up and hindereth edification.
Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967
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He that boasteth and puffeth up himself, stirreth up quarrels: but he that trusteth in the Lord, shall be healed.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 22: Proverbs The Challoner Revision
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He that boasteth and puffeth up himself, stirreth up quarrels: but he that trusteth in the Lord, shall be healed.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete Anonymous
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For, these vertues or ornamentes, ought to be repo - sed in soche noble personages, thei doe marueilously chaunge and alter: So honour and preeminente state, puffeth theim vp, and blindeth theim, that euery one in the ende, seeketh to climbe ouer all, as hed and gouernour.
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