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# damsel

«damsel» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **girl, young woman** — 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

girl, young woman

### part of speech

noun

### meaning for a pupil

A young unmarried woman or girl. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/D/damsel/#m1)

### how it differs from today

Today it is used only in old stories; we say "girl" or "young woman." The sentences use the old word.

### examples

- And the damsel ran, and told her mother's house according to these words. (Torah GEN.24.28, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/D/damsel/#x1)
- The live-long night the damsel sobbed and sang: (More English Fairy Tales) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/D/damsel/#x2)
- And they said: 'We will call the damsel, and inquire at her mouth.' (Torah GEN.24.57, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/D/damsel/#x3)

### primary record

damsel

### tests

manual 10.3; corpora 75 (Torah 23, tales 52, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 8.5 (Torah alone 53.7); Wiktionary no archaic label

### In the corpora

- [And the damsel ran, and told her mother's house according to these words.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.649/)
- [And they said: 'We will call the damsel, and inquire at her mouth.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.682/)
- [And Rebekah arose, and her damsels, and they rode upon the camels, and followed the man.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.686/)
- [And his soul did cleave unto Dinah the daughter of Jacob, and he loved the damsel, and spoke comfortingly unto the damsel.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1057/)
- [And Shechem spoke unto his father Hamor, saying: 'Get me this damsel to wife.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1058/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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