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- verb archaic Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
clothe .
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Examples
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Jews yellow. 131 And every day she tortureth me and scourgeth me with an hundred stripes, each of which draweth floods of blood and cutteth the skin of my shoulders to strips; and lastly she clotheth my upper half with a hair cloth and then throweth over them these robes.
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Is there no true greatness in this sentiment? — “Birth is the boast of the faineant; noble is the youth who beareth every ill, who clotheth himself in mail during the noontide heat, and who wandereth through the outer darkness of night.”
Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003
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And lastly she clotheth my upper half with a haircloth and then throweth over them these robes.
Tehran Winter Naipaul, V.S. 1981
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If we have seen our dear ones cut down like the grass, and withered like the flowers of the field, let us remember that the grass will spring again, and the flowers will once more appear on the earth; and that our loved ones will also come again, clothed in resurrection beauty by Him who clotheth the lilies of the field.
The Life of Duty, v. 2 A year's plain sermons on the Gospels or Epistles H. J. Wilmot-Buxton
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"If I had thome dry clotheth on I gueth I'd be all right," observed a lisping voice from the darkness.
The Meadow-Brook Girls Afloat Janet Aldridge
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Light is nothing but an adornment of the soul with which God adorneth her, clotheth her, and maketh her well-pleasing to Him.
The Following of Christ. c. 1300-1361 1910
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The spiritual love of God maketh man pure and holy and clotheth him with the garment of virtue and purity.
Bahá’í World Faith 1844-1921 `Abdu'l-Bah�� 1882
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The spiritual love of God maketh man pure and holy and clotheth him with the garment of virtue and purity.
Tablets of Abdul-Baha Abbas 1844-1921 `Abdu'l-Bah�� 1882
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He shall be judged by the ancestors of Rā, and he shall be judged by the God of Light who clotheth heaven among the divine princes.
Egyptian Literature Comprising Egyptian tales, hymns, litanies, invocations, the Book of the Dead, and cuneiform writings Epiphanius Wilson 1880
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Darkness, that is, he that clotheth and covereth the feeble one, and whose
Egyptian Literature Comprising Egyptian tales, hymns, litanies, invocations, the Book of the Dead, and cuneiform writings Epiphanius Wilson 1880
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