faileth

«faileth» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: fails — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

kind

archaic form

modern equivalent

fails

part of speech

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

meaning for a pupil

«faileth» means «fails», a form of «fail»: To fail means not to do what you tried or wanted to do. 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 faileth» = «he fails».

tests

ending -eth (stem «fail», 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

• The earth fainteth and fadeth away, the world faileth and fadeth away, the lofty people of the earth do fail.
• The new wine faileth, the vine fadeth; all the merry-hearted do sigh.
• My heart fluttereth, my strength faileth me; as for the light of mine eyes, it also is gone from me.
• Cast me not off in the time of old age; when my strength faileth, forsake me not.
• My flesh and my heart faileth; but God is the rock of my heart and my portion for ever.

Trees and pragmatics

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