faileth

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A form of fail — To be unsuccessful.

OriginEnglish fail ← Middle English failen ← Old French falir →
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Meanings

verb
  1. archaicindicativepresentsingularthird personthird-person singular simple present indicative of fail

Origin

  1. Classical Latinfallere
  2. Vulgar Latin*fallīre
  3. Old Frenchfalir
  4. Middle Englishfailen
  5. Englishfail
  6. Englishfaileth

From fail + -eth.

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