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- verb archaic Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
decrease .
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Examples
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The heavens themselves run continually round, the sun riseth and sets, the moon increaseth and decreaseth, stars and planets keep their constant motions, the air is still tossed by the winds, the waters ebb and flow to their conservation no doubt, to teach us that we should ever be in action.
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Wrath surely decreaseth the virtue that ascetics acquire with great pains.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli
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Wrath surely decreaseth the virtue that ascetics acquire with great pains.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Translated into English Prose Adi Parva Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli
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From the moon is the sign of the festival day, a light that decreaseth in her perfection.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete Anonymous
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From the moon is the sign of the festival day, a light that decreaseth in her perfection.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 26: Ecclesiasticus The Challoner Revision
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In this age, sacrifices are introduced, and virtue decreaseth by a quarter.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli
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It is in consequence of the sinful acts of kings that virtue decreaseth greatly, and sin beginneth to prosper.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli
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A man must not only consider how daily his life wasteth and decreaseth, but this also, that if he live long, he cannot be certain, whether his understanding shall continue so able and sufficient, for either discreet consideration, in matter of businesses; or for contemplation: it being the thing, whereon true knowledge of things both divine and human, doth depend.
Meditations Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius
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Like an elephant in battle without his driver, a Kshatriya destitute of Brahmanas decreaseth in strength!
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli
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[Sidenote: Wisedome.] decreaseth, as in all states it is wisedome: so with my self I waie discritlie, to take tyme while tyme is, for this tyme as a
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