darest

«darest» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: dare — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

kind

archaic form

modern equivalent

dare

part of speech

verb, form of dare with thou

meaning for a pupil

Has the courage to do something, with "thou" as the subject. tree →

how it differs from today

No longer used; today we say "dare" with "you."

examples

• "Darest thou to follow me?" asked the form. (Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen) tree →
• ‘Rash youth that thou art, darest thou speak thus to Arthur? (The Lilac Fairy Book) tree →
• “Strike then, Bogle, if thou darest,” shouted out Childe Rowland, and rushed to meet him with his good brand that never yet did fail. (English Fairy Tales) tree →

primary record

dare

tests

manual 5; corpora 3 (Torah 0, tales 3, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 0.3 (Torah alone 0.0); Wiktionary no archaic label

Trees and pragmatics

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