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# confirmeth

«confirmeth» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **confirms** — 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

confirms

### part of speech

verb, old form of «confirms» (he, she, it)

### meaning for a pupil

«confirmeth» means «confirms», a form of «confirm»: To confirm something is to show or say that it is definitely true or correct. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/C/confirmeth/#m1)

### how it differs from today

Only the ending is old: -eth was the ending for he, she and it, where today we say -s: «he confirmeth» = «he confirms».

### examples

- Cursed be he that confirmeth not the words of this law to do them. (Torah DEU.27.26, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/C/confirmeth/#x1)

### tests

ending -eth (stem «confirm», 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

- [Cursed be he that confirmeth not the words of this law to do them.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/DEU.736/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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