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blives

blives is the third-person singular simple present indicative of blive.

Meaning of blive

Adverb

blive (comparative more blive, superlative most blive)

  1. (obsolete) quickly; forthwith
    • “Perdy, ſir knight,” ſaide then th’ enchaunter blive […]1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 18, page 223

Questions about blives

What is blives the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Blives is the third-person singular simple present indicative of blive.

Words near blives in the dictionary

  1. blitzscaling
  2. blitzweed
  3. blive
  4. bliven
  5. Blivens
  6. blives
  7. blivet
  8. blivets
  9. bliving
  10. blivit
  11. blivits

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