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# nought

«nought» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **nothing** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### kind

archaic word

### modern equivalent

nothing

### part of speech

noun and number

### meaning for a pupil

Nothing; in the texts it means no part, or nothing at all. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/N/nought/#m1)

### how it differs from today

Old form of "naught" (nothing); today "nought" also means the number zero, which is used in British English and not in these sentences.

### examples

- Go yourselves, get you straw where ye can find it; for nought of your work shall be diminished.' (Torah EXO.5.11, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/N/nought/#x1)
- She saw nought the first day. (More English Fairy Tales) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/N/nought/#x2)
- but now our soul is dried away; there is nothing at all; we have nought save this manna to look to.' — (Torah NUM.11.6, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/N/nought/#x3)

### primary record

nought

### tests

manual 3; corpora 83 (Torah 8, tales 73, Sefer Yetzirah 2); EWT 0; ratio 9.4 (Torah alone 18.7); Wiktionary no archaic label

### In the corpora

- [Go yourselves, get you straw where ye can find it; for nought of your work shall be diminished.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.127/)
- [They can do nought except crouch under the captives, and fall under the slain.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.216/)
- [For the terrible one is brought to nought, and the scorner ceaseth, and all they that watch for iniquity are cut off;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.613/)
- [All the nations are as nothing before Him; they are accounted by Him as things of nought, and vanity.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.853/)
- [That bringeth princes to nothing; He maketh the judges of the earth as a thing of nought.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.862/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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