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gnaweth
vb. (en-archaic third-person singular of: gnaw)
Usage examples of "gnaweth".
As the leech applies in remedy to the internal sore some outward irritation, which, by a gentler wound, draws away the venom of that which is more deadly, thus, in the rankling festers of the mind, our art is to divert to a milder sadness on the surface the pain that gnaweth at the core.
So doth all carnal joy begin pleasantly, but in the end it gnaweth away and destroyeth.