nought

«nought» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: nothing — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

kind

archaic word

modern equivalent

nothing

part of speech

noun and number

meaning for a pupil

Nothing; in the texts it means no part, or nothing at all. tree →

how it differs from today

Old form of "naught" (nothing); today "nought" also means the number zero, which is used in British English and not in these sentences.

examples

• Go yourselves, get you straw where ye can find it; for nought of your work shall be diminished.' (Torah EXO.5.11, JPS 1917) tree →
• She saw nought the first day. (More English Fairy Tales) tree →
• but now our soul is dried away; there is nothing at all; we have nought save this manna to look to.' — (Torah NUM.11.6, JPS 1917) tree →

primary record

nought

tests

manual 3; corpora 83 (Torah 8, tales 73, Sefer Yetzirah 2); EWT 0; ratio 9.4 (Torah alone 18.7); Wiktionary no archaic label

In the corpora

• Go yourselves, get you straw where ye can find it; for nought of your work shall be diminished.'
• They can do nought except crouch under the captives, and fall under the slain.
• For the terrible one is brought to nought, and the scorner ceaseth, and all they that watch for iniquity are cut off;
• All the nations are as nothing before Him; they are accounted by Him as things of nought, and vanity.
• That bringeth princes to nothing; He maketh the judges of the earth as a thing of nought.

Trees and pragmatics

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