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- verb archaic Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
groan .
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Examples
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For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.
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For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.
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For I feel it, I feel it — infinite love is suffering too — yea, in the fulness of knowledge it suffers, it yearns, it mourns; and that is a blind self-seeking which wants to be freed from the sorrow wherewith the whole creation groaneth and travaileth.
Adam Bede 2004
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And Rustem, when he had heard this dream, said, “Surely thy vision was given unto thee of God! But now, I pray thee, up and tarry no longer, for the land of Iran groaneth sore and awaiteth thee with much travail.”
The Epic of Kings Firdausi 2002
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Yet remember, O my son, that thou close thy lips concerning these things; for Turan groaneth under the hand of
The Epic of Kings Firdausi 2002
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Hark! Hark! How it groaneth with evil recollections!
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For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.
Romans 8. 1999
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"For we know, that the whole creature" (or heathen world) "groaneth together, and travaileth, and, as it were, with a convex weight, boweth down unto this very time, to be born and brought forth."
From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979
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Are you intrusted with the charge of an hospital, where one languisheth in one corner, and another groaneth in another, and crieth out, ` Oh, help me, pity me for the Lord's sake!
The Reformed Pastor 1615-1691 1974
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Verse 22, "For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now."
The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968
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