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# mightest

«mightest» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **might (with you)** — 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

might (with you)

### part of speech

verb, past tense of might, used with thou (second person singular)

### meaning for a pupil

Had the power to do something; were able to. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/M/mightest/#m1)

### how it differs from today

No longer used; today we say "you might"; the -est ending belonged to thou.

### primary record

might

### tests

manual 5; corpora 2 (Torah 1, tales 1, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 0.2 (Torah alone 2.3); Wiktionary no archaic label

### In the corpora

- [I know thy presumptuousness, and the naughtiness of thy heart; for thou art come down that thou mightest see the battle.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1SA.480/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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