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

Etymologies

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relieve +‎ -eth

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Examples

  • The LORD looseth the prisoners: 8. The LORD openeth the eyes of the blind: the LORD raiseth them that are bowed down: the LORD loveth the righteous: 9. The LORD preserveth the strangers; he relieveth the fatherless and widow: but the way of the wicked he turneth upside down.

    Probably Just One Of Those Funny Coincidences 2006

  • The LORD looseth the prisoners: 8. The LORD openeth the eyes of the blind: the LORD raiseth them that are bowed down: the LORD loveth the righteous: 9. The LORD preserveth the strangers; he relieveth the fatherless and widow: but the way of the wicked he turneth upside down.

    Villaraigosa And Nunez Cut And Run - Video Report 2006

  • He cheers the morn, and all the world relieveth: 484

    Venus and Adonis 2004

  • It is laudable, what they think hard; what is indispensable and hard they call good; and what relieveth in the direst distress, the unique and hardest of all, — they extol as holy.

    Thus spake Zarathustra; A book for all and none 2001

  • The LORD looseth the prisoners: the LORD openeth the eyes of the blind: the LORD raiseth them that are bowed down: the LORD loveth the righteous: the LORD preserveth the strangers; he relieveth the fatherless and widow: but the way of the wicked he turneth upside down.

    Psalms 146. 1999

  • Holy Spirit helps and relieveth us herein, whether we may or ought to relinquish and neglect his assistance, and so to rely only on such supplies as are invented or used unto that end for which he is promised; that is, plainly, whether the word of God be to be trusted unto in this matter or not.

    Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967

  • He poureth contempt upon princes, and relieveth them that were oppressed.

    The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete Anonymous

  • And in that place did the saint by his prayers produce out of the heart of the earth a pure fountain, which to this day is called Slan, that is, healing; for that it relieveth many laboring under multiplied diseases.

    The Most Ancient Lives of Saint Patrick Including the Life by Jocelin, Hitherto Unpublished in America, and His Extant Writings Various

  • David relieveth Ceila, besieged by the Philistines.

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

  • David relieveth Ceila, besieged by the Philistines.

    The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete Anonymous

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