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

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declare + -eth

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Examples

  • Then he cautioned them against disobedience and quoth he, "Be ye not deluded by becoming my companions nor say to yourselves, We be the assessors of the King; for that the byword declareth: Whenas the King sitteth beware of his severity, and be not refractory whenever he shall say to thee 'Do.'"

    Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

  • Society, to be sure, does not like this very well; it saith, Whoso goes to walk alone, accuses the whole world; he declareth all to be unfit to be his companions; it is very uncivil, nay, insulting; Society will retaliate.

    Richard Geldard: In This Other America 2010

  • When they had gone some distance from the gate, the city being surrounded by a valley with precipitous sides, Ullo pushed him down, shouting as he did so, “Behold your Ballomey who declareth himself son and brother of kings!”

    De Re Militari: The Society for Medieval Military History » Episodes of Medieval Warfare from the History of the Franks by Gregory of Tours 2009

  • Indeed many women not just Queens would wish to have such loyal friends as Marie-Antoinette, "Blessed is he that findeth a true friend, and that declareth justice to an ear that heareth."

    Archive 2008-04-20 de Brantigny........................ 2008

  • Indeed many women not just Queens would wish to have such loyal friends as Marie-Antoinette, "Blessed is he that findeth a true friend, and that declareth justice to an ear that heareth."

    How la Reine-Martyre Marie-Antoinette was clothed de Brantigny........................ 2008

  • Apostles, St. Paul declareth plainly in that he useth the word, which the Holy Ghost used at his calling, for he styleth himself,

    Leviathan 2007

  • For seeing the sovereign demandeth by force of a former law, and not by virtue of his power, he declareth thereby that he requireth no more than shall appear to be due by that law.

    Leviathan 2007

  • But God declareth his laws three ways; by the dictates of natural reason, by revelation, and by the voice of some man to whom, by the operation of miracles, he procureth credit with the rest.

    Leviathan 2007

  • For amongst presumptions, there is none that so evidently declareth the author as doth the benefit of the action.

    Leviathan 2007

  • But Moses, and after him the high priests, were prophets of a more eminent place and degree in God's favour; and God Himself in express words declareth that to other prophets He spake in dreams and visions, but to His servant Moses in such manner as a man speaketh to his friend.

    Leviathan 2007

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