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# blessest

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

### kind

archaic form

### modern equivalent

you bless

### part of speech

verb, old form used with thou

### meaning for a pupil

«blessest» means «you bless», a form of «bless»: To bless means to ask God to protect someone or something or bring them good, often by a priest or religious leader. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/B/blessest/#m1)

### how it differs from today

Only the ending is old: -est or -st was the ending used with thou, which today is you with no ending: «thou blessest» = «you bless».

### tests

ending -est (stem «bless», a verb of EWT); corpora 1 (Torah 1, tales 0, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 0.1 (Torah alone 2.3); Wiktionary no archaic label

### In the corpora

- [Watering her ridges abundantly, settling down the furrows thereof, Thou makest her soft with showers; Thou blessest the growth thereof.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.1053/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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