preve

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A form of prove — To demonstrate that something is true or viable; to give proof for; to bear out; to testify.

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Meanings

verbpreve (third-person singular simple present preves, present participle preving, simple past and past participle preved)

present singular third person preves · participle present preving · participle past preved · past preved

  1. obsoleteObsolete form of prove.

    And thus your huſbandrye me thincke, is more like the life of a couetous ſnudge that ofte very euill preues, then the labour of a good huſbãde [husbande] that knoweth well what he doth.

    1545, Roger Ascham, “The First Booke”, in Toxophilus, the Schole, or Partitions of Shooting […], [new] edition, London: […] Thomas Marshe, published 1571, →OCLC, folio 2, recto
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