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# sleepest

«sleepest» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **you sleep** — 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

you sleep

### part of speech

verb, old form used with thou

### meaning for a pupil

«sleepest» means «you sleep», a form of «sleep»: To sleep is to rest with your eyes closed and your mind switched off, as you do at night. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/S/sleepest/#m1)

### how it differs from today

Only the ending is old: -est or -st was the ending used with thou, which today is you with no ending: «thou sleepest» = «you sleep».

### examples

- Feeling perfectly bewildered by my sudden return to life and light, I murmured to myself in Arabic, "Close thine eyes, and while thou sleepest Heaven will change thy fortune from evil to good." (The Arabian Nights Entertainments) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/S/sleepest/#x1)

### tests

ending -est (stem «sleep», a verb of EWT); corpora 2 (Torah 0, tales 2, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 0.2 (Torah alone 0.0); Wiktionary no archaic label

### In the corpora

- [Awake, why sleepest Thou, O Lord?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.735/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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