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- verb archaic Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
belie .
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Examples
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Keep yourselves, therefore, from murmuring, which profiteth nothing, and refrain your tongue from detraction, for an obscure speech shall not go for nought: and the mouth that belieth, killeth the soul.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete The Challoner Revision Anonymous
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Keep yourselves, therefore, from murmuring, which profiteth nothing, and refrain your tongue from detraction, for an obscure speech shall not go for nought: and the mouth that belieth, killeth the soul.
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Keep yourselves, therefore, from murmuring, which profiteth nothing, and refrain your tongue from detraction, for an obscure speech shall not go for nought: and the mouth that belieth, killeth the soul.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 25: Wisdom The Challoner Revision
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And again: "The mouth that belieth, killeth the soul."
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Keep yourselves, therefore, from murmuring, which profiteth nothing, and refrain your tongue from detraction, for an obscure speech shall not go for nought: and the mouth that belieth, killeth the soul.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete Anonymous
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It belieth the present blessing of God among us; and (2.)
Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03 John Bunyan 1658
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The going in ways of blood, extortion, covetousness, idolatry, belieth the decree of election to glory.
The Tryal & Triumph of Faith: or An Exposition of the History of Christs dispossessing of the daughter of the woman of Canaan. 1600-1661 1645
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"A little matter pleases thee hugely," said he; "but as to being ungainly, who so sayeth that of thee belieth thee, Myles; thou art not ungainly, sirrah.
Men of Iron 1891
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But bethink thee "(and she smiled somewhat)" that this gear belieth me, and that I am but a woman; and some things there be which a woman may not tell to a man, nay, not even when he hath held her long in his arms. "
The Well at the World's End: a tale William Morris 1865
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