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- verb archaic Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
shew .
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Examples
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Italy to go up and down also in England with pages at their heels finely apparelled, whose face and countenance shall be such as sheweth the master not to be blind in his choice.
Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series) Thomas Malory Jean Froissart
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Such men as this last are easily known; for they have learned in Italy to go up and down also in England with pages at their heels finely apparelled, whose face and countenance shall be such as sheweth the master not to be blind in his choice.
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The wicked borroweth, and payeth not again: but the righteous sheweth mercy, and giveth.
Fret Not 2009
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[16] So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy.
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I can't prove it by science, but I'm inclined to agree with the Psalmist, "The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handiwork."
Fibonacci Patterns James Gurney 2010
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He is impure or flagitious, who meeting with modest women, sheweth that which taketh his name of shame or secrecy.
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He is impure or flagitious, who meeting with modest women, sheweth that which taketh his name of shame or secrecy.
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This is the thing which I have spoken unto Pharaoh: What God is about to do he sheweth unto Pharaoh.
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MAT 4: 8 Again, the devil taketh him up into an exceeding high mountain, and sheweth him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them;
Think Progress » VIDEO: House Conservatives Reveal What God Thinks About Gay Marriage Amendment 2006
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The petition of a great number of blacks detained in a state of slavery in the bowels of a free & Christian country humbly sheweth that your petitioners apprehend we have in common with all other men a natural and unalienable right to that freedom which the Great Parent of the Universe hath bestowed equally on all mankind, and which they never forfeited by any compact or agreement whatever.
Hullabaloo 2007
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