raiment

«raiment» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: clothing, clothes — 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

clothing, clothes

part of speech

noun

meaning for a pupil

Clothes, especially fine or grand clothes. tree →

how it differs from today

Old-fashioned; today we say clothes or clothing, and "raiment" is found mainly in old or Bible language.

examples

• And he shaved himself, and changed his raiment, and came in unto Pharaoh. (Torah GEN.41.14, JPS 1917) tree →
• Then I mourned him in black raiment for forty days. (The Brown Fairy Book) tree →
• Thy raiment waxed not old upon thee, neither did thy foot swell, these forty years. (Torah DEU.8.4, JPS 1917) tree →

primary record

raiment

tests

manual 10.4; corpora 44 (Torah 15, tales 29, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 5.0 (Torah alone 35.0); Wiktionary archaic (first sense)

In the corpora

• And he shaved himself, and changed his raiment, and came in unto Pharaoh.
• If he take him another wife, her food, her raiment, and her conjugal rights, shall he not diminish.
• Thy raiment waxed not old upon thee, neither did thy foot swell, these forty years.
• He doth execute justice for the fatherless and widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment.
• Thou shalt not pervert the justice due to the stranger, or to the fatherless; nor take the widow's raiment to pledge.

Trees and pragmatics

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