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# shewed

«shewed» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **showed** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### kind

archaic form

### modern equivalent

showed

### part of speech

verb, past tense of shew

### meaning for a pupil

Let someone see something, or made something plain, in the past. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/S/shewed/#m1)

### how it differs from today

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

### examples

- He was shewed up stairs into the King's apartment, and, making a low reverence, said to him: (The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/S/shewed/#x1)
- For He shewed the combination of these letters, each with the other; Aleph with all, and all with Aleph; Beth with all, and all with Beth. (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/S/shewed/#x2)
- And here is the finger with the ring.’ And with these words the bride drew forth the finger and shewed it to the assembled guests. (Grimms' Fairy Tales) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/S/shewed/#x3)

### tests

manual 6; corpora 9 (Torah 0, tales 5, Sefer Yetzirah 4); EWT 0; ratio 1.0 (Torah alone 0.0); Wiktionary no archaic label

### Trees and pragmatics

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