saith

alternative sayeth · alternative says

1. archaicindicativepresentsingularthird personthird-person singular simple present indicative of say

   While every leaf that His plumes touch / Saith His Name audibly.

   1850, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, The Blessed Damozel, ll. 89-90

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   And the Lord spake unto Moses, Go unto Pharaoh, and say unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Let my people go, that they may serve me.

   1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Exodus 8:1

   And they shall be mine, saith the Lord of hosts, in that day when I make up my jewels; and I will spare them, as a man spareth his own son that serveth him.

   1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Malachi 3:17

   In this life we have but a glimpse of this beauty and happiness; we shall hereafter, as John saith, see him as he is.

   1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC

   […] ("since all is o'er," he saith, / "And the blow fallen no grieving can amend;")

   1855, Robert Browning, Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came, section V

   Penn: I don't want to invest in the conversation, not that I don't have it privately, about my feelings about what direct action should happen to a leader who does that, but if there is a God, there will be vengeance beyond all possible comprehension. Hannity: "Vengeance is mine saith the Lord", quoted in a very famous book.

   2022 April 5, Sean Hannity, Sean Penn, 22:33 from the start, in Sean Penn joins Sean Hannity to discuss Russian invasion of Ukraine (Hannity), Fox News, archived from the original on 11 Apr 2022

plural saiths

1. alternativeAlternative form of saithe (“type of fish”).