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# keepest

«keepest» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **you keep** — 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 keep

### part of speech

verb, old form used with thou

### meaning for a pupil

«keepest» means «you keep», a form of «keep»: To keep something is to go on having it and not give it away. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/K/keepest/#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 keepest» = «you keep».

### examples

- I hear it of thee, thou keepest far greater state than I. (More English Fairy Tales) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/K/keepest/#x1)

### tests

ending -est (stem «keep», a verb of EWT); corpora 1 (Torah 0, tales 1, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 0.1 (Torah alone 0.0); Wiktionary no archaic label

### In the corpora

- [The mind stayed on Thee Thou keepest in perfect peace; because it trusteth in Thee.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.525/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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