defiledst

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

kind

archaic form

modern equivalent

you defiled

part of speech

verb, old form used with thou

meaning for a pupil

«defiledst» means «you defiled», a form of «defile»: (noun) A defile is a narrow path or valley between high rocks or hills, where only a few can pass at a time. tree →

how it differs from today

Only the ending is old: -est or -st was the ending used with thou, which today is you with no ending: «thou defiledst» = «you defiled».

examples

• Unstable as water, have not thou the excellency; because thou wentest up to thy father's bed; then defiledst thou it — he went up to my couch. (Torah GEN.49.4, JPS 1917) tree →

tests

ending -st (stem «defiled», 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

Trees and pragmatics

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