shouldest

«shouldest» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: should — 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

should

part of speech

auxiliary verb, form of should used with thou

meaning for a pupil

You should or ought to; you would be expected to. tree →

how it differs from today

No longer used; today we say you should. The sentences use the same sense as should.

examples

• Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat?' (Torah GEN.3.11, JPS 1917) tree →
• that I will not take a thread nor a shoe-latchet nor aught that is thine, lest thou shouldest say: I have made Abram rich; (Torah GEN.14.23, JPS 1917) tree →
• And Laban said unto Jacob: 'Because thou art my brother, shouldest thou therefore serve me for nought? tell me, what shall thy wages be?' (Torah GEN.29.15, JPS 1917) tree →

tests

manual 5; corpora 11 (Torah 9, tales 2, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 1.2 (Torah alone 21.0); Wiktionary no archaic label

In the corpora

• Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat?'
• Why shouldest thou be as a man overcome, as a mighty man that cannot save?
• If Thou, LORD, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who could stand?
• Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar with a pestle among groats, yet will not his foolishness depart from him.
• What is man, that Thou shouldest magnify him, and that Thou shouldest set Thy heart upon him,

Trees and pragmatics

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