confirmeth

«confirmeth» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: confirms — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

kind

archaic form

modern equivalent

confirms

part of speech

verb, old form of «confirms» (he, she, it)

meaning for a pupil

«confirmeth» means «confirms», a form of «confirm»: To confirm something is to show or say that it is definitely true or correct. tree →

how it differs from today

Only the ending is old: -eth was the ending for he, she and it, where today we say -s: «he confirmeth» = «he confirms».

examples

• Cursed be he that confirmeth not the words of this law to do them. (Torah DEU.27.26, JPS 1917) tree →

tests

ending -eth (stem «confirm», a verb of EWT); corpora 1 (Torah 1, tales 0, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 0.1 (Torah alone 2.3); Wiktionary no archaic label

In the corpora

• Cursed be he that confirmeth not the words of this law to do them.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «confirmeth» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.