keepest

«keepest» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: you keep — 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

you keep

part of speech

verb, old form used with thou

meaning for a pupil

«keepest» means «you keep», a form of «keep»: To keep something is to go on having it and not give it away. 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 keepest» = «you keep».

examples

• I hear it of thee, thou keepest far greater state than I. (More English Fairy Tales) tree →

tests

ending -est (stem «keep», a verb of EWT); corpora 1 (Torah 0, tales 1, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 0.1 (Torah alone 0.0); Wiktionary no archaic label

In the corpora

• The mind stayed on Thee Thou keepest in perfect peace; because it trusteth in Thee.

Trees and pragmatics

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