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  • verb archaic Third-person singular present simple form of complain

Etymologies

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complain +‎ -eth

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Examples

  • Replied Obayd, No! But whenever I have by me a guest like thee, he complaineth in the morning of the mosquito bites, and this happeneth only when he is like thee beardless.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Presently, one of her maids brought her a silken bag, which she opened and taking thereout a lute, laid it in her lap and smote its strings, whereat it complained as child complaineth to mother, and she sang these two couplets,

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Then she strained the lute to her bosom, bending over it as mother bendeth over babe, and swept the strings which complained as child to mother complaineth; after which she played upon it and began improvisng these couplets,

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Clitophon, in the first book of Achilles, Tatius, complaineth how that his mistress Leucippe tormented him much more in the night than in the day.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Amphelinam depereunt, &c. They neigh after other men's wives (as Jeremia, cap.v. 8. complaineth) like fed horses, or range like town bulls, raptores virginum et viduarum, as many of our great ones do.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Lookes a-squint on his discourse, and smiles, when hee complaineth.

    Archive 2006-03-01 Heo 2006

  • Lookes a-squint on his discourse, and smiles, when hee complaineth.

    Friday Poetry Blogging: Thomas Campion Heo 2006

  • These are the things which David so often and so bitterly complaineth of, and which with so much earnestness he contendeth and wrestleth with God to be delivered from.

    Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967

  • And we are sure that as God complaineth that his sanctuary is polluted, when there are brought into it

    A Discourse concerning Evangelical Love, Church Peace, and Unity 1616-1683 1965

  • The truth is, that our friend had been reading among the essays of a contemporary, who has perversely been confounded with him, a paper in which Edax (or the Great Eater) humorously complaineth of an inordinate appetite; and it struck him that a better paper -- of deeper interest, and wider usefulness -- might be made out of the imagined experiences of a

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 67, May, 1863 Various

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