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- verb archaic Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
differ .
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Examples
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So Dahnash looked at the Prince and long continued gazing steadfastly on him then, shaking his head, said to Maymunah, By Allah, O my lady, thou art excusable; but there is yet another thing to be considered, and this is, that the estate female differeth from the male.
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So he tolls us that his word differeth from all other pretended revelations as the wheat doth from the chaff Jer. xxiii.
Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967
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Their maner of baptizing differeth something from ours: part of the seruice belonging therto is repeated in Latin, and part in
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Their maner of baptizing differeth something from ours: part of the seruice belonging therto is repeated in Latin, and part in Irish.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 07 England's Naval Exploits Against Spain Richard Hakluyt 1584
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Second, that amongst these creatures, the common good differeth not from the private [goals of the individual] †¦ But man, whose joy consisteth in comparing himself to other man, can relish in nothing but what is eminent†¦ (35)
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Secondly, that amongst these creatures the common good differeth not from the private; and being by nature inclined to their private, they procure thereby the common benefit.
Leviathan 2007
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Secondly, thanksgiving; which differeth from prayer in divine worship no otherwise than that prayers precede, and thanks succeed, the benefit, the end both of the one and the other being to acknowledge God for author of all benefits as well past as future.
Leviathan 2007
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And this kind of dominion, or sovereignty, differeth from sovereignty by institution only in this, that men who choose their sovereign do it for fear of one another, and not of him whom they institute: but in this case, they subject themselves to him they are afraid of.
Leviathan 2007
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Chapter 4 1. Now I say, That the heir, as long as he is a child, differeth nothing from a servant, though he be lord of all; 2. But is under tutors and governors until the time appointed of the father.
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There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars: for one star differeth from another star in glory.
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