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- verb archaic Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
shine .
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Examples
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Southsouthwest, vntill thou come in sight of a rocke which shineth, which is about halfe a league in the sea distant from the Isles, and thou shalt leaue it on the larrebord: (and from the Isles of Damoiselle vnto
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation. Vol. XIII. America. Part II. Richard Hakluyt 1584
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John 1 gives us more clues, "And the light shineth in the darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not."
Paul Hunting: Holy Bible, Holy Mirror: How Looking Beyond Literal Meaning Enhances the Bible's Sanctity Paul Hunting 2010
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"A Republic whose history, like the path of the just, is as the shining light that shineth more and more unto the perfect day."
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Infuse into our hearts, we pray Thee, O Lord, a longing for heavenly splendour: that, holding in our right hands the sheaves of justice, we may go thither where the holy Abbot Columba shineth brilliantly with Thee.
The Fulcrum of Civilization John 2008
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John 1 gives us more clues, "And the light shineth in the darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not."
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She shineth forth a moon, and bends a willow-wand, iv.
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Like the full moon she shineth in garments all of green, viii.
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Like the full moon she shineth in garments all of green,
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And the light shineth in darkness, and the darkness comprehended it not.
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Then they attired Dunyazad in a dress of blue brocade and she became as she were the full moon when it shineth forth.
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