smitten

«smitten» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: struck — 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

struck

part of speech

verb, past participle of smite

meaning for a pupil

Hit hard or struck down. tree →

how it differs from today

Today smitten also means fond of or attracted to someone, which the Andersen sentence uses. The Torah sentences use the old sense of struck down.

examples

• And seven days were fulfilled, after that the LORD had smitten the river. (Torah EXO.7.25, JPS 1917) tree →
• "At that time he was quite smitten with Charlotte. (Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen) tree →
• But the wheat and the spelt were not smitten; for they ripen late. — (Torah EXO.9.32, JPS 1917) tree →

primary record

smitten

tests

manual 6; corpora 22 (Torah 15, tales 7, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 2.5 (Torah alone 35.0); Wiktionary no archaic label

In the corpora

• And seven days were fulfilled, after that the LORD had smitten the river.
• And the flax and the barley were smitten; for the barley was in the ear, and the flax was in bloom.
• But the wheat and the spelt were not smitten; for they ripen late. —
• Go not up, for the LORD is not among you; that ye be not smitten down before your enemies.
• So the children of Benjamin saw that they were smitten.

Trees and pragmatics

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