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- verb archaic Third-person singular present simple form of
matter
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Examples
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So the neighbours awoke from sleep and said to him, “What mattereth thee, O madman?”
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The King said, ‘Come forth: it mattereth not for him.’
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So he rose and repaired to his house and went in to his wife, snorting like a dragon; 425 and she said to him, “What mattereth thee, O my lord?”
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Jew, naught mattereth an thou become a Moslem or a Nazarene!
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Presently he rose and went in to his favourite wife who, seeing him changed of colour, said to him, “What mattereth thee, O King?”
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Thou art unwilling to profit by this comparison, by some other profit, it mattereth not provided thou do it : and, being secure, wait for the Kingdom of God, lest thy prayer quarrel with thee.
Rebirth of the Eagle Fred 2007
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Thou art unwilling to profit by this comparison, by some other profit, it mattereth not provided thou do it : and, being secure, wait for the Kingdom of God, lest thy prayer quarrel with thee.
Archive 2007-09-01 Fred 2007
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And when she beheld the army she woke them and bade them prepare for combat; but Gew suffered not that Kai Khosrau should go forth, for he said — “If I fall, what mattereth that? my father hath seventy and eight sons like unto me; but thou art alone, and if thy head shall fall, what other is worthy of the crown?”
The Epic of Kings Firdausi 2002
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It mattereth not what the exterior may be if the heart is pure and white within.
The Advent of Divine Justice 1897-1957 Shoghi Effendi 1927
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And except a man be lifted up in the spirit, and freed from all creatures, and altogether united to God, whatsoever he knoweth, whatsoever even he hath, it mattereth but little.
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