shew

«shew» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: show — 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

show

part of speech

verb, base form

meaning for a pupil

To let someone see something, or to make something plain. tree →

how it differs from today

Old spelling of show; today we write show. The sentences use the same sense.

examples

• No sooner were the ceremonies of the wedding over, but the stepmother began to shew herself in her colours. (The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault) tree →
• "If you will follow my advice, your fortune is made; you have nothing else to do, but go and wash yourself in the river, in that part I shall shew you, and leave the rest to me." (The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault) tree →

primary record

shew

tests

manual 6; corpora 4 (Torah 0, tales 4, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 0.5 (Torah alone 0.0); Wiktionary no archaic label

In the corpora

• And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.

Trees and pragmatics

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