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# criest

«criest» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **you cry** — 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 cry

### part of speech

verb, old form used with thou

### meaning for a pupil

«criest» means «you cry», a form of «cry»: To cry is to have tears come from your eyes because you are sad, hurt, or very happy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/C/criest/#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 criest» = «you cry».

### examples

- And the LORD said unto Moses: 'Wherefore criest thou unto Me? speak unto the children of Israel, that they go forward. (Torah EXO.14.15, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/C/criest/#x1)

### tests

ending -est (stem «cry», 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

- [Why criest thou for thy hurt, that thy pain is incurable?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.822/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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