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- verb archaic Third-person singular present simple form of
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Examples
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Whoso hath been drawn into it sinketh eternally, and can come to no ground or soundings; the spirit hovereth in God as the fish in the sea and the bird in the air.
The Following of Christ. c. 1300-1361 1910
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He hath broken away from the created, therefore also no creature can reach him, and thus he hovereth everlastingly in God; he can no more come out of the Godhead than the stone by its own force can come up again to the surface.
The Following of Christ. c. 1300-1361 1910
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It treadeth the way of death and that swirling pool over which it hovereth is our grave! "
The Coming of the King Bernie Babcock
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P. 12, l. 276, A word within that hovereth without wings.] -- i.e. a presentiment.
The Agamemnon of Aeschylus Translated into English Rhyming Verse with Explanatory Notes 525 BC-456 BC Aeschylus 1911
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Death hovereth over my head except I win my will of my heart's dearling; and I, O my mother, am in every case thy child. "
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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