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# lovest

«lovest» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **you love** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### kind

archaic form

### modern equivalent

you love

### part of speech

verb, old form used with thou

### meaning for a pupil

«lovest» means «you love», a form of «love»: To care very deeply about someone, like family or close friends. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/L/lovest/#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 lovest» = «you love».

### tests

ending -est (stem «love», 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

- [in that thou lovest them that hate thee, and hatest them that love thee.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2SA.552/)
- [Thou lovest evil more than good; falsehood rather than speaking righteousness.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.867/)
- [Thou lovest all devouring words, the deceitful tongue.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.868/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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