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- verb archaic Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
breed .
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Examples
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Then the soldiers threw themselves flat on their faces before His Majesty, saying, "Behold, thy name breedeth strength in us.
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When she turneth she shameth the wild cattle322 and the gazelles and when she walketh, she breedeth envy in the willow branch: when she unveileth her face outshineth sun and moon and all who look upon her she enslaveth soon: sweet lipped and soft sided indeed is she.
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[2939] Persicos odi puer apparatus: Excess of meat breedeth sickness, and gluttony causeth choleric diseases: by surfeiting many perish, but he that dieteth himself prolongeth his life,
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For roughness: it is a needless cause of discontent: severity breedeth fear, but roughness breedeth hate.
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Yew that is old, in churchyard mould, he breedeth a mighty bow
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Yew that is old, in churchyard mould, he breedeth a mighty bow
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Seeds spring from seeds, and beauty breedeth beauty;
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Dwina from S. Nicholas to Vstiug runneth all on chalke and sand: the fish are sweete and fat The Mene a fish with a great head a foot long breedeth about Vologda, and is fat and delicate.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
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But the principal hawke that breedeth in the country, is counted the gerfaulcon.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
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Which breedeth much cauill, and sometimes quarell betwixt them and the Tartar, and Poland Ambassadours: who refuse to call him Czar, that is Emperor, and to repeate the other parts of his long stile.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
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