"belive" meaning in English

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      "form": "beliving",
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        "participle",
        "present"
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      "form": "belove",
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        "past"
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          "ref": "1843 (original date: 1475), Geoffrey Chaucer, Thomas Tyrwhitt, The Poetical Works of Geoffrey Chaucer - Page 321",
          "text": "… 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, …\""
        },
        {
          "ref": "1900 (original date: 1483), Jacobus (de Voragine), William Caxton, Frederick Startridge Ellis, The golden legend, or, Lives of the saints",
          "text": "So there bleveth no more, but I that am servant to the spirit, may lie down and die. In which death I glorify myself, but I am greatly troubled in my mind, that my riches which I had ordained to God be wasted and spent in foul things."
        }
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        "To remain, stay."
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        "(intransitive, obsolete outside dialects) To remain, stay."
      ],
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          "word": "bilive"
        },
        {
          "word": "bleve"
        },
        {
          "word": "bileve"
        },
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          "word": "bilave"
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        {
          "word": "blewe"
        }
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          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "to remain, stay",
          "word": "bleiben"
        },
        {
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "ostavátʹsja",
          "sense": "to remain, stay",
          "word": "остава́ться"
        }
      ]
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      "tags": [
        "US"
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      "rhymes": "-aɪv"
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    {
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      "word": "blive"
    }
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        "Quickly, forthwith."
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        "(obsolete outside Scotland) Quickly, forthwith."
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          "text": "… 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, …\""
        },
        {
          "ref": "1900 (original date: 1483), Jacobus (de Voragine), William Caxton, Frederick Startridge Ellis, The golden legend, or, Lives of the saints",
          "text": "So there bleveth no more, but I that am servant to the spirit, may lie down and die. In which death I glorify myself, but I am greatly troubled in my mind, that my riches which I had ordained to God be wasted and spent in foul things."
        }
      ],
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        "To remain, stay."
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        "(intransitive, obsolete outside dialects) To remain, stay."
      ],
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      "word": "bilive"
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      "word": "blive"
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      "word": "bleve"
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      "word": "bileve"
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      "word": "blewe"
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    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to remain, stay",
      "word": "bleiben"
    },
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      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "ostavátʹsja",
      "sense": "to remain, stay",
      "word": "остава́ться"
    }
  ],
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}

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        "Quickly, forthwith."
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        "(obsolete outside Scotland) Quickly, forthwith."
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