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# kind

«kind» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **species, sort** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### kind

archaic sense

### modern equivalent

species, sort

### part of speech

noun (kind, kinds); adjective (kind, kinder, kindest)

### meaning for a pupil

A type or sort of something. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/K/kind/#m1)

### how it differs from today

Today "kind" still means type or sort, and "kind" as an adjective means gentle or caring. The sentences use these senses as we do.

### examples

- Thou shalt not plant thee an Asherah of any kind of tree beside the altar of the LORD thy God, which thou shalt make thee. (Torah DEU.16.21, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/K/kind/#x1)
- Would she to me were kind! (Andersen's Fairy Tales) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/K/kind/#x2)
- On another, it refers to something less tangible, approaching the kind of phantom essence implied by the English term ‘soul’. (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/K/kind/#x3)

### primary record

kind

### tests

manual 10.3; corpora 892 (Torah 19, tales 867, Sefer Yetzirah 6); EWT 46; ratio 1.1 (Torah alone 0.5); Wiktionary archaic (a sense)

### In the corpora

- [and the kite, and the falcon after its kinds;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/LEV.268/)
- [every raven after its kinds;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/LEV.269/)
- [and the ostrich, and the night-hawk, and the sea-mew, and the hawk after its kinds;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/LEV.270/)
- [and the stork, and the heron after its kinds, and the hoopoe, and the bat.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/LEV.273/)
- [and the glede, and the falcon, and the kite after its kinds;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/DEU.414/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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