raiment

«raiment» in Mova's school dictionary: Clothing, especially fine clothes — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (raiment, uncountable)

meaning for a pupil

(old, Bible) Clothing, especially fine clothes. tree →

sense in the lessons

An old word in the Bible and old poems and stories. In the King James Bible: «Take no thought for your life... nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?» Today say «clothes».

examples

• The king was dressed in fine raiment. tree →
• (Bible) His raiment was white as snow. tree →
• The angels shone in bright raiment. tree →
• Rich raiment hung in the queen's wardrobe. tree →
• (Bible) Is not the body more than raiment? tree →
• They wore raiment of silk and gold. tree →
• Then Ivan immediately put on his princely raiment, and went out of the house. tree →

note

Old word; everyday word: clothes. Uncountable.

In the corpora

• And he shaved himself, and changed his raiment, and came in unto Pharaoh.
• If he take him another wife, her food, her raiment, and her conjugal rights, shall he not diminish.
• Thy raiment waxed not old upon thee, neither did thy foot swell, these forty years.
• He doth execute justice for the fatherless and widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment.
• Thou shalt not pervert the justice due to the stranger, or to the fatherless; nor take the widow's raiment to pledge.

Trees and pragmatics

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