straitly

«straitly» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: strictly — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

kind

archaic word

modern equivalent

strictly

part of speech

adverb

meaning for a pupil

Strictly, firmly, or solemnly, so that something must be done. tree →

how it differs from today

No longer used; today we say strictly or sternly. The sentence uses the same sense as the dictionary.

examples

• And Moses took the bones of Joseph with him; for he had straitly sworn the children of Israel, saying: 'God will surely remember you; and ye shall carry up my bones away hence with you.' (Torah EXO.13.19, JPS 1917) tree →

primary record

strictly

tests

manual 10.2; corpora 2 (Torah 2, tales 0, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 0.2 (Torah alone 4.7); Wiktionary no archaic label

In the corpora

• Now Jericho was straitly shut up because of the children of Israel: none went out, and none came in. —

Trees and pragmatics

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