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- noun obsolete A fon.
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- noun Obsolete form of
fon .
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Examples
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Of like forte is it chat they alleage: that he is no otherwife called the fonne of Dauid, but becaufe he was promifed and at length in his due time deliuered.
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A _fonne_ in Chaucer signifies a _fool_, and _fonnes -- fools_; and
The Rowley Poems Thomas Chatterton
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But if I mak fonne on poor Louis, I know he was good boy too!
The Habitant and Other French-Canadian Poems William Henry Drummond 1880
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That hath befide well in his perfon wrought The patfaffc in North's tranflatron, 1579, nins thus: •« The houfe of the Martians at Rome was of the number of the patridang, out of which hath fprone many noble perfonages: whereof Ancos Martius was one, king Numaes dauehter's fonne, who was kiiy of Rome after TuUus Hoftilius.
The Plays of William Shakspeare: In Fifteen Volumes. With the Corrections and Illustrations of ... 1793
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For my felf (my fonne) I am determined not to tarrie, till fortune in my life time doe malce an ende of this warre.
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I do not except the famous Non nobis of Bird, in which are fonne pafTages not to be endured.
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Thefe confluent ftreanns make fonne great river's head.
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And becaule fonne might be apt to think that they could converfe with bad men without any fuch danger, therefore 'tis further added, lefl thou learn his ways, and get a fnare to thy foul.
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:: His fonne come in haft, and wil wafte this land: and he wil make man Icchoniasrci - anc j beaft, to ceafe out ofit?
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Ioachin, a Ioachin called alfo Iecho - otktrWtfe nias, fonne of the former Iecho - Iechonias, or Ioachaz, reig - A certaine cap - nias, ned but three moneth'es Sc'taine picking a 'wascaried into Babylon & quarel appre with him Ezechiel the Pro - phet and others.
Logophile77 commented on the word fonne
Gothic typeset rendering of sonne.
December 6, 2017