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# aught

«aught» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **anything** — 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

anything

### part of speech

pronoun

### meaning for a pupil

Anything at all. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/A/aught/#m1)

### how it differs from today

No longer common; today we say anything.

### examples

- And whosoever beareth aught of the carcass of them shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even. (Torah LEV.11.25, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/A/aught/#x1)
- Say, knowest thou aught of Mabon?" (Celtic Fairy Tales) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/A/aught/#x2)
- And if aught of their carcass fall upon any sowing seed which is to be sown, it is clean. (Torah LEV.11.37, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/A/aught/#x3)

### primary record

aught

### tests

manual 3; corpora 43 (Torah 16, tales 27, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 4.9 (Torah alone 37.3); Wiktionary archaic (first sense)

### In the corpora

- [And whosoever beareth aught of the carcass of them shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/LEV.279/)
- [And if aught of their carcass fall upon any sowing seed which is to be sown, it is clean.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/LEV.291/)
- [But if water be put upon the seed, and aught of their carcass fall thereon, it is unclean unto you.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/LEV.292/)
- [And if thou sell aught unto thy neighbour, or buy of thy neighbour's hand, ye shall not wrong one another.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/LEV.747/)
- [And if a man will redeem aught of his tithe, he shall add unto it the fifth part thereof.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/LEV.865/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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