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- verb archaic Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
knit .
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Examples
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The causes and motives of seditions are, innovation in religion; taxes; alteration of laws and customs; breaking of privileges; general oppression; advancement of unworthy persons; strangers; dearths; disbanded soldiers; factions grown desperate; and what soever, in offending people, joineth and knitteth them in a common cause.
The Essays 2007
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The lady-mother still distributeth tracts, and knitteth Berlin linsey-woolsey.
Burlesques 2006
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The lady-mother still distributeth tracts, and knitteth Berlin linsey-woolsey.
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She worketh harde for ye armie; yea, she knitteth stockyngs and maketh shertes for ye contrabandes, whereof I haue scene one whiche a contrabande with his wyfe and children didde all were at once, so nobly greate was it.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 5, May, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various
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The causes and motives of seditions are, innovation in religion; taxes; alteration of laws and customs; breaking of privileges; general oppression; advancement of unworthy persons; strangers; dearths; disbanded soldiers; factions grown desperate; and whatsoever, in offending people, joineth and knitteth them in a common cause.
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I would that thou knew what manner of working it is that knitteth man's soul to God, and that maketh it one with Him in love and accordance of will, [213] after the word of saint Paul saying thus:
The Cell of Self-Knowledge : seven early English mystical treatises printed by Henry Pepwell in 1521 Henry Pepwell 1902
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Thou art my _ka_, the dweller in my body; the god Khnemu who knitteth and strengtheneth my limbs.
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And for what cause or reason joineth he him, or knitteth he him so fast unto his goods, that all his wits will not dissever him or depart him from his goods, and knoweth well, or ought to know, that when he is dead he shall nothing bear with him out of this world?
The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume III (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland I Various 1885
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And he knitteth up and divideth, with life and death at his will.
The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs William Morris 1865
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Praise be unto the press, the kindly press of Noah, which knitteth friends, which fuseth foes.
The Confidence-Man 1857
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