lettest

«lettest» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: you let — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

kind

archaic form

modern equivalent

you let

part of speech

verb, old form used with thou

meaning for a pupil

«lettest» means «you let», a form of «let»: To allow someone to do something: "Mum let me stay up." 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 lettest» = «you let».

examples

• And when thou lettest him go free from thee, thou shalt not let him go empty; (Torah DEU.15.13, JPS 1917) tree →

tests

ending -est (stem «let», a verb of EWT); corpora 2 (Torah 2, tales 0, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 0.2 (Torah alone 4.7); Wiktionary no archaic label

In the corpora

• And when thou lettest him go free from thee, thou shalt not let him go empty;
• That thou turnest thy spirit against God, and lettest such words go out of thy mouth.

Trees and pragmatics

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