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- verb archaic Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
slight .
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Examples
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And shall say to them: This our son is rebellious and stubborn, he slighteth hearing our admonitions, he giveth himself to revelling, and to debauchery and banquetings:
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete Anonymous
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If a man have a stubborn and unruly son, who will not hear the commandments of his father or mother, and being corrected, slighteth obedience:
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete Anonymous
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And shall say to them: This our son is rebellious and stubborn, he slighteth hearing our admonitions, he giveth himself to revelling, and to debauchery and banquetings:
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete The Challoner Revision Anonymous
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She robeth herself in fine linen, decketh herself with jewels, anointeth her hair and maketh her eyes lovely with kohl, and lo! when she would picture herself she setteth her shoulders awry and slighteth the grace of her joints and the softness of her flesh.
The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt Elizabeth Miller
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If a man have a stubborn and unruly son, who will not hear the commandments of his father or mother, and being corrected, slighteth obedience:
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 05: Deuteronomy The Challoner Revision
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If a man have a stubborn and unruly son, who will not hear the commandments of his father or mother, and being corrected, slighteth obedience:
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete The Challoner Revision Anonymous
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And shall say to them: This our son is rebellious and stubborn, he slighteth hearing our admonitions, he giveth himself to revelling, and to debauchery and banquetings:
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 05: Deuteronomy The Challoner Revision
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As he that slighteth his meat doth slight his life, so if you slight
The World's Great Sermons, Volume 02 Hooker to South Grenville Kleiser 1910
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He picketh and chooseth among the commands of God; obeyeth one, and slighteth another.
The Almost Christian Discovered; or, the False Professor Tried and Cast. 1629-1699 1856
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Wherefore when he heareth, that his righteousness is condemned, slighted, and accounted nothing worth, then he fretteth, and fumeth, and chafeth and would kill the man, that so slighteth and disdaineth his goodly righteousness; but
Works of John Bunyan — Volume 02 John Bunyan 1658
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