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- verb archaic Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
prefer .
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Examples
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The Peace be on him who followeth in the way of righteousness and who feareth the issues of frowardness who obeyeth the Almighty King and followeth the Faith saving and preferreth the next world to any present thing!
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Q “And who is he that preferreth his future to his present welfare?” — “He who knoweth that he dwelleth in a perishing house, that he was created but to vade away and that, after vading away, he will be called to account and indeed, were there in this world one living and abiding for ever, he would not prefer it to the next world.”
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Another interpretation of baptism for the dead is that which I have before mentioned, which he preferreth to the second place of probability: and thence also he inferreth the utility of prayer for the dead.
Leviathan 2007
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Now gloweth the sun upon him, and the dogs lick at his sweat: but he lieth there in his obstinacy and preferreth to languish: — — A span – breadth from his goal, to languish!
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And they are unmindful of their own interest who would have bishops that attend to the rule of the church to be distinctly intended by the elders that rule well, seeing the apostle expressly preferreth before and above them those that attend constantly to the word and doctrine.
A Brief Instruction in the Worship of God 1616-1683 1965
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We are esteemed by him as triflers, and he abstaineth from our ways as from filthiness, and he preferreth the latter end of the just, and glorieth that he hath God for his father.
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We are esteemed by him as triflers, and he abstaineth from our ways as from filthiness, and he preferreth the latter end of the just, and glorieth that he hath God for his father.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete The Challoner Revision Anonymous
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He sacrificeth in Gabaon: in the choice which God gave him he preferreth wisdom.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete The Challoner Revision Anonymous
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He sacrificeth in Gabaon: in the choice which God gave him he preferreth wisdom.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 11: 3 Kings The Challoner Revision
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We are esteemed by him as triflers, and he abstaineth from our ways as from filthiness, and he preferreth the latter end of the just, and glorieth that he hath God for his father.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 25: Wisdom The Challoner Revision
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