Throve

//θɹəʊv// verb

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Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    simple past of thrive form-of, past

    "So three years / She throve, but on the fourth she fell, / Like Herod, when the shout was in his hears, / Struck thro' with pangs of hell."

  2. 2
    past participle of thrive form-of, nonstandard, participle, past

    "But having now done with theſe Excreſcencies of Spain, from whence they pretend to have originally ſprung, let us ſee how thoſe which they lay claim to for their Anceſtors, have throve in their aversion to Induſtry."

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"So three years / She throve, but on the fourth she fell, / Like Herod, when the shout was in his hears, / Struck thro' with pangs of hell."

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