to sayeth
- verb
- Archaic
- And he sayeth unto them, the wicked shall be punished!
- thus sayeth
But, and so she says, dad didn't ride bikes.
- But, and so she says, dad didn't ride bikes.
- Well, so Don Junior says, well, she can't cook.
- But remember what Rumi says about those wounds, right?
- The first person says rest, relax, get ready.
- She's the woman who says to the guy, you know what?
- Epictetus is dealing with a person who says I am annoyed at being pitied.
- It's all those kinds of things that he basically says, let others write your story.
- And he says that it's in this wilderness, he says, where psychic dynamite is made.
- And as he says, a kind of revolt, right?
- So he says, what else did you learn in Egypt?
- This, this, this is what Nietzsche talks about when he says embrace your fate.
- And he says, no, I want you to do it.
- And then my wife calls out to my son and says Wedo, that that's his nickname.
- Floyd Mayweather junior, he says he's the best ever.
- The third law of nature, says Hobbs, is to perform your covenants.
Examples
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And he sayeth unto them, the wicked shall be punished!
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He can now leaveth but he chooses to stay, and furthermore I do not believe it who he sayeth he is-eth.
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And he sayeth unto Perky, the numbers 2, 5, and/or 7 are an abomination and should never be used in an internet forum name, so sayeth the Lord. - Penguins 22, chapter 3, verse 8
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In old tales, the prophet sayeth that good shall triumph over evil.
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The king sayeth his decree must be obeyed by all subjects.
Synonyms
An old word used in stories when a person speaks
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word sayeth is an old form of say that means 'says'. The ending -eth was used in older English to mark 'he/she/it', so a helpful way to remember it is to read sayeth as 'he/she says' in a story or poem.