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

Etymologies

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spring + -eth

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Examples

  • But she smiled at his speech and retorted, Indeed, it is a matter right marvellous how error springeth from the disorder of man’s intendiment!!

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • In the grave they laid him, love whom men had slain, thinking that never he would wake again, laid in the earth like grain that sleeps unseen: love is come again like wheat the springeth green.

    Connections 2010

  • Wheat that in dark earth many days has lain; love lives again, that with the dead has been: love is come again, like wheat that springeth green.

    A Different Stripe: 2009

  • In the grave they laid him, love whom men had slain, thinking that never he would wake again, laid in the earth like grain that sleeps unseen: love is come again like wheat the springeth green.

    Now the Green Blade Riseth (a carol for spring) 2009

  • When our hearts are wintry, grieving in pain, thy touch can call us back to life again, fields of hearts that dead and bare have been: love is come again, like wheat that springeth green. —

    Now the Green Blade Riseth (a carol for spring) 2009

  • Forth he came at Easter, like the risen grain, he that for three days in the grave had lain, quick from the dead my risen Lord is seen: love is come again, like wheat that springeth green.

    Connections 2010

  • Wheat that in dark earth many days has lain; love lives again, that with the dead has been: love is come again, like wheat that springeth green.

    Connections 2010

  • In the grave they laid him, love whom men had slain, thinking that never he would wake again, laid in the earth like grain that sleeps unseen: love is come again like wheat the springeth green.

    A Different Stripe: 2009

  • When our hearts are wintry, grieving in pain, thy touch can call us back to life again, fields of hearts that dead and bare have been: love is come again, like wheat that springeth green. —

    Connections 2010

  • Wheat that in dark earth many days has lain; love lives again, that with the dead has been: love is come again, like wheat that springeth green.

    Now the Green Blade Riseth (a carol for spring) 2009

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  • The bandicoot springeth.

    May 5, 2016