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# raiment

«raiment» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **clothing, clothes** — 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

clothing, clothes

### part of speech

noun

### meaning for a pupil

Clothes, especially fine or grand clothes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/R/raiment/#m1)

### how it differs from today

Old-fashioned; today we say clothes or clothing, and "raiment" is found mainly in old or Bible language.

### examples

- And he shaved himself, and changed his raiment, and came in unto Pharaoh. (Torah GEN.41.14, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/R/raiment/#x1)
- Then I mourned him in black raiment for forty days. (The Brown Fairy Book) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/R/raiment/#x2)
- Thy raiment waxed not old upon thee, neither did thy foot swell, these forty years. (Torah DEU.8.4, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/R/raiment/#x3)

### primary record

raiment

### tests

manual 10.4; corpora 44 (Torah 15, tales 29, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 5.0 (Torah alone 35.0); Wiktionary archaic (first sense)

### In the corpora

- [And he shaved himself, and changed his raiment, and came in unto Pharaoh.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1313/)
- [If he take him another wife, her food, her raiment, and her conjugal rights, shall he not diminish.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.589/)
- [Thy raiment waxed not old upon thee, neither did thy foot swell, these forty years.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/DEU.250/)
- [He doth execute justice for the fatherless and widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/DEU.314/)
- [Thou shalt not pervert the justice due to the stranger, or to the fatherless; nor take the widow's raiment to pledge.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/DEU.656/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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