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belives

belives is the third-person singular simple present indicative of belive.

Meaning of belive

Verb

belive (third-person singular simple present belives, present participle beliving, simple past belove, past participle beliven)

  1. (dialectal, intransitive, otherwise obsolete) To remain, stay.
    • … God helpe me so, the best is thus to done. “Rise, let us speake of lustie life in Troy That we have lad, and forth the time drive, And eke of time coming us rejoy, That bringen shall our blisse now to blive, …"1843 (original date: 1475), Geoffrey Chaucer, Thomas Tyrwhitt, The Poetical Works of Geoffrey Chaucer - Page 321

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What is belives the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Belives is the third-person singular simple present indicative of belive.

Words near belives in the dictionary

  1. belivable
  2. belive
  3. Beliveau
  4. Beliveaus
  5. beliven
  6. belives
  7. beliving
  8. Belizaire
  9. Belizaires
  10. Belize
  11. Belize City

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