want

«want» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: need; lack — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

kind

archaic sense

modern equivalent

need; lack

part of speech

verb (noun in the first sentence: "the want of their little ones")

meaning for a pupil

To lack or be short of something, so that one needs it. tree →

how it differs from today

Today "to want" means to wish or desire. The Torah sentence uses the old sense of lacking what is needed, while the other two sentences use today's sense of wishing.

examples

• And Joseph sustained his father, and his brethren, and all his father's household, with bread, according to the want of their little ones. (Torah GEN.47.12, JPS 1917) tree →
• “But we want you to dance.” (Peter Pan) tree →
• "I don't want anything," replied Petrusha. (Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore) tree →

primary record

want

tests

manual 10.3; corpora 1103 (Torah 3, tales 1100, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 213; ratio 0.3 (Torah alone 0.0); Wiktionary archaic (a sense)

In the corpora

• but thou shalt surely open thy hand unto him, and shalt surely lend him sufficient for his need in that which he wanteth.
• that they may want bread and water, and be appalled one with another, and pine away in their iniquity.
• The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want.
• O fear the LORD, ye His holy ones; for there is no want to them that fear Him.
• The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger; but they that seek the LORD want not any good thing.

Trees and pragmatics

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