mightest

«mightest» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: might (with you) — 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

might (with you)

part of speech

verb, past tense of might, used with thou (second person singular)

meaning for a pupil

Had the power to do something; were able to. tree →

how it differs from today

No longer used; today we say "you might"; the -est ending belonged to thou.

primary record

might

tests

manual 5; corpora 2 (Torah 1, tales 1, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 0.2 (Torah alone 2.3); Wiktionary no archaic label

In the corpora

• I know thy presumptuousness, and the naughtiness of thy heart; for thou art come down that thou mightest see the battle.'

Trees and pragmatics

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