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affirm +‎ -eth

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affirmeth

  1. (archaic) third-person singular simple present indicative of affirm
    • 1640, Dec. 1st: The Committee of Religion of the County of Kent, Proceedings; reprinted in:
    • 1862, Rev. Lambert Blackwell Larking, Proceedings principally in the County of Kent, in connection with the parliaments called in 1640, and especially with the Committee of Religion appointed in that year, M.A.: John Bowyer Nichols and Sons, page 84:
      Idem Rothwell affirmeth that Mr. Fenner’s bookes were denyed the presse, eo nomine because they were his, as will be proved per Thomas Nicholls — and this was by Dr. Wykes.

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