[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/emode/w/darest.html)

[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [dictionaries](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/) / [The Early Modern English dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/emode/) / darest

[← D](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/emode/D/)

# darest

«darest» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **dare** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### kind

archaic form

### modern equivalent

dare

### part of speech

verb, form of dare with thou

### meaning for a pupil

Has the courage to do something, with "thou" as the subject. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/D/darest/#m1)

### how it differs from today

No longer used; today we say "dare" with "you."

### examples

- "Darest thou to follow me?" asked the form. (Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/D/darest/#x1)
- ‘Rash youth that thou art, darest thou speak thus to Arthur? (The Lilac Fairy Book) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/D/darest/#x2)
- “Strike then, Bogle, if thou darest,” shouted out Childe Rowland, and rushed to meet him with his good brand that never yet did fail. (English Fairy Tales) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/D/darest/#x3)

### primary record

dare

### tests

manual 5; corpora 3 (Torah 0, tales 3, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 0.3 (Torah alone 0.0); Wiktionary no archaic label

### Trees and pragmatics

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