Meanings
verb
- archaicindicativepresentsingularthird personthird-person singular simple present indicative of turn
And the soul that turneth after such as have familiar spirits, and after wizards, to go a whoring after them, I will even set my face against that soul, and will cut him off from among his people.
1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Leviticus 20:6
Origin
From turn + -eth, the archaic third-person singular present tense suffix.
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