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  • verb archaic Third-person singular simple present indicative form of sit.

Etymologies

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From sit +‎ -eth, the archaic third-person singular present tense suffix

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Examples

  • The word "sitteth" is expressive not so much of the attitude as of the settled and continuous character of Christ's exaltation.

    Exposition of the Apostles Creed James Dodds

  • Contrast the turbid "many waters" on which the harlot "sitteth" (Re 17: 1, 15).

    Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871

  • - Christ notably "sitteth" right of higher God, above ...

    Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions 2009

  • King an 'sitteth 'tween the cherubims,' though the airth's twitchin ', same as a crab bein' boiled alive, all the time. "

    Lying Prophets Eden Phillpotts 1911

  • Hmmm, apparently Bishop Thomas J. Tobin now believes he "sitteth on the right hand of God Almighty" in decreeing WHO receives communion!

    Bishop bars Patrick Kennedy from communion over abortion 2009

  • He ascended into heaven, he sitteth at the right hand of the Father, God Almighty: from whence he will come to judge the quick and the dead.

    And it's Trinity Sunday today John 2009

  • He ascended into heaven, he sitteth at the right hand of the Father, God Almighty: from whence he will come to judge the quick and the dead.

    Ss Petri & Pauli John 2009

  • "He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh; the Lord shall have them in derision."

    long weekend persephoneplace 2008

  • Satan comes through the antichrist as “the man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God” 2 Thessalonians2:3–4.

    FROM THE CROSS TO PENTECOST T. D. JAKES 2010

  • When men shall call upon the mountains and the rocks to fall upon them and hide them—hide them from the face of Him that sitteth upon the throne!

    The War of The Worlds H. G. Wells 2009

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