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# pleaseth

«pleaseth» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **pleases** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### kind

archaic form

### modern equivalent

pleases

### part of speech

verb, old form of «pleases» (he, she, it)

### meaning for a pupil

«pleaseth» means «pleases», a form of «please»: Please is the polite word you add when you ask for something: Can I have some water, please? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/P/pleaseth/#m1)

### how it differs from today

Only the ending is old: -eth was the ending for he, she and it, where today we say -s: «he pleaseth» = «he pleases».

### examples

- And Abimelech said: 'Behold, my land is before thee: dwell where it pleaseth thee.' (Torah GEN.20.15, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/P/pleaseth/#x1)

### tests

ending -eth (stem «please», 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

- [And Abimelech said: 'Behold, my land is before thee: dwell where it pleaseth thee.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.537/)
- [Be not hasty to go out of his presence; stand not in an evil thing; for he doeth whatsoever pleaseth him.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/ECC.155/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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