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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
obtest .
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Examples
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Spanish wars, obtests vainly: threatens and resists vainly.
The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838
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He obtests and even conjures them in the most solemn manner: By the coming of Christ, &c.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation) 1721
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Are we so credulous to men, and shall not we believe God, who is truth itself, who affirms it so constantly, and obtests us so earnestly?
The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning Hugh Binning 1640
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