Definitions
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb archaic Third-person singular present simple form of
fail
Etymologies
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word faileth.
Examples
-
And although we have no further account of Ebedmeleck, yet we have every reason to believe that the promise to him was also fulfilled; as it was made by Him whose promises are sure, and whose word faileth not.
-
Among other things, every female member of the church above the age of 18 is a member of the Relief Society, whose motto — taken from the Books of Corinthians and Moroni — is “Charity never faileth …”
‘Social Justice’ Is Just a Code Word for Utah-Style Communofascism « Gerry Canavan 2010
-
I made that in the heavens there should rise light that never faileth....
Archive 2009-07-01 elena maria vidal 2009
-
Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.
Three Endings Susan Palwick 2009
-
I made that in the heavens there should rise light that never faileth....
Mt. Carmel Novena, Day 3 elena maria vidal 2009
-
Each one of them hath said what passed through his mind on the subject of this boy and hath set froth that which was of the renewal of divine favour to us, after my rears had reached the term when confidence faileth and despair assaileth.
-
The seeker is, however, in two cases: either he gaineth his fortune or he faileth thereof.
-
The apes entered and he after them, and he saw in the castle all manner of rarities, jewels and precious metals such as tongue faileth to describe.
-
Thou faileth not, Thy compassions, they change not.
THE EXORSISTAH CLAUDIA MAIR BURNEY 2008
-
He assented and walking in with him, found it a handsome house and a goodly, decorated with gold and full of all manner pictures and furniture galore and other things, such as tongue faileth to set out.
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.