loveth

«loveth» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: loves — 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

loves

part of speech

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

meaning for a pupil

«loveth» means «loves», 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: -eth was the ending for he, she and it, where today we say -s: «he loveth» = «he loves».

examples

• He doth execute justice for the fatherless and widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment. (Torah DEU.10.18, JPS 1917) tree →
• Yea, He loveth the peoples, all His holy ones — they are in Thy hand; and they sit down at Thy feet, receiving of Thy words. (Torah DEU.33.3, JPS 1917) tree →
• And it shall be, if he say unto thee: 'I will not go out from thee'; because he loveth thee and thy house, because he fareth well with thee; (Torah DEU.15.16, JPS 1917) tree →

tests

ending -eth (stem «love», a verb of EWT); corpora 5 (Torah 5, tales 0, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 0.6 (Torah alone 11.7); Wiktionary no archaic label

In the corpora

• He doth execute justice for the fatherless and widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment.
• He whom the LORD loveth shall perform His pleasure on Babylon, and show His arm on the Chaldeans.
• He loveth to oppress.
• The LORD trieth the righteous; but the wicked and him that loveth violence His soul hateth.
• For the LORD is righteous, He loveth righteousness; the upright shall behold His face.

Trees and pragmatics

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