Doven
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Doven is a verb meaning Alternative form of daven.
Meaning
Alternative form of daven.
More Meanings
- (dialectal) past participle of dive
Example Sentences
Knowin’ what I do know, divin’ deep into the heights and depths of men’s naters as I have doven, I knew that this would break Serepta’s chains.
But I sez, “Nobody can dive into deeper depths than I have doven to-day.” / “The ocean?” sez she. / “Oceans of anxiety,” sez I, “rivers of grief.”
“The last man out had grabbed a half empty bottle off the counter near the door, two cowboys there had doven under a table to escape the bullets from them two crazy shooters.”
I didn’t go onto the heights and depths of filosofy, on which I so many times had flew and doven;[…]But not studyin’ it out as I have, not divin’ into the subject so deep as I have doven, it galled Tirzah Ann to see Mrs. Skidmore put on such airs.
Word Forms
- dovens
- dovening
- dovened
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include recite, worship, doctrinise, cabbalise, divinise, leven.
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