kind

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

kind

archaic sense

modern equivalent

species, sort

part of speech

noun (kind, kinds); adjective (kind, kinder, kindest)

meaning for a pupil

A type or sort of something. tree →

how it differs from today

Today "kind" still means type or sort, and "kind" as an adjective means gentle or caring. The sentences use these senses as we do.

examples

• Thou shalt not plant thee an Asherah of any kind of tree beside the altar of the LORD thy God, which thou shalt make thee. (Torah DEU.16.21, JPS 1917) tree →
• Would she to me were kind! (Andersen's Fairy Tales) tree →
• On another, it refers to something less tangible, approaching the kind of phantom essence implied by the English term ‘soul’. (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation) tree →

primary record

kind

tests

manual 10.3; corpora 892 (Torah 19, tales 867, Sefer Yetzirah 6); EWT 46; ratio 1.1 (Torah alone 0.5); Wiktionary archaic (a sense)

In the corpora

• and the kite, and the falcon after its kinds;
• every raven after its kinds;
• and the ostrich, and the night-hawk, and the sea-mew, and the hawk after its kinds;
• and the stork, and the heron after its kinds, and the hoopoe, and the bat.
• and the glede, and the falcon, and the kite after its kinds;

Trees and pragmatics

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