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# shew

«shew» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **show** — 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

show

### part of speech

verb, base form

### meaning for a pupil

To let someone see something, or to make something plain. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/S/shew/#m1)

### how it differs from today

Old spelling of show; today we write show. The sentences use the same sense.

### examples

- No sooner were the ceremonies of the wedding over, but the stepmother began to shew herself in her colours. (The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/S/shew/#x1)
- "If you will follow my advice, your fortune is made; you have nothing else to do, but go and wash yourself in the river, in that part I shall shew you, and leave the rest to me." (The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/S/shew/#x2)

### primary record

shew

### tests

manual 6; corpora 4 (Torah 0, tales 4, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 0.5 (Torah alone 0.0); Wiktionary no archaic label

### In the corpora

- [And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JOL.50/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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