lovest

«lovest» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: you love — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

kind

archaic form

modern equivalent

you love

part of speech

verb, old form used with thou

meaning for a pupil

«lovest» means «you love», a form of «love»: To care very deeply about someone, like family or close friends. 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 lovest» = «you love».

tests

ending -est (stem «love», 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

• in that thou lovest them that hate thee, and hatest them that love thee.
• Thou lovest evil more than good; falsehood rather than speaking righteousness.
• Thou lovest all devouring words, the deceitful tongue.

Trees and pragmatics

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