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# alway

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

### kind

archaic word

### modern equivalent

always

### part of speech

adverb

### meaning for a pupil

At all times, every time. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/A/alway/#m1)

### how it differs from today

No longer used; today we say always.

### examples

- And thou shalt set upon the table showbread before Me alway. (Torah EXO.25.30, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/A/alway/#x1)
- There we keep holiday alway, nor need we help from any in our joy. (Celtic Fairy Tales) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/A/alway/#x2)
- So it was alway: the cloud covered it, and the appearance of fire by night. (Torah NUM.9.16, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/A/alway/#x3)

### primary record

always

### tests

rate: word (≥3 uses, never in EWT or ≥10× EWT, Wiktionary: first sense archaic); corpora 6 (Torah 5, tales 1, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 0.7 (Torah alone 11.7); Wiktionary archaic (first sense)

### In the corpora

- [And thou shalt set upon the table showbread before Me alway.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.730/)
- [So it was alway: the cloud covered it, and the appearance of fire by night.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.392/)
- [For the needy shall not alway be forgotten, nor the expectation of the poor perish for ever.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.114/)
- [That he should still live alway, that he should not see the pit.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.805/)
- [Happy is the man that feareth alway; but he that hardeneth his heart shall fall into evil.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.818/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «alway» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/A/alway/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.