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- verb archaic Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
try .
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Examples
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They behead anyone who trieth to thtop people from being beheaded!
Bubble in the Bathtub Jo Nesbo 2011
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They behead anyone who trieth to thtop people from being beheaded!
Bubble in the Bathtub Jo Nesbo 2011
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Psalm 11:5 - The LORD trieth the righteous: but the wicked and him that loveth violence his soul hateth.
Yet another Fred Phelps commentary - or - Aren't there times when we should all be quiet? Diane Silver 2006
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Psalm 11:5 - The LORD trieth the righteous: but the wicked and him that loveth violence his soul hateth.
Archive 2006-02-19 Diane Silver 2006
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So that it is the work, effect, or instance, that trieth the Axiom, and the sense doth but try the work done or not done, being or not being.
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[4061] For His hand lays hold of all things, and that it is which illumines the heavens, and lightens also the things which are under the heavens, and trieth the reins and the hearts, is also present in hidden things, and in our secret [thoughts], and does openly nourish and preserve us.
ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus 1819-1893 2001
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All the ground trieth to gape, but the depth will not swallow!
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A parasite: that is a reptile, a creeping, cringing reptile, that trieth to fatten on your infirm and sore places.
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The LORD trieth the righteous: but the wicked and him that loveth violence his soul hateth.
Psalms 11. 1999
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The fining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold: but the LORD trieth the hearts.
Proverbs 17. 1999
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