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# straitly

«straitly» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **strictly** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### kind

archaic word

### modern equivalent

strictly

### part of speech

adverb

### meaning for a pupil

Strictly, firmly, or solemnly, so that something must be done. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/S/straitly/#m1)

### how it differs from today

No longer used; today we say strictly or sternly. The sentence uses the same sense as the dictionary.

### examples

- And Moses took the bones of Joseph with him; for he had straitly sworn the children of Israel, saying: 'God will surely remember you; and ye shall carry up my bones away hence with you.' (Torah EXO.13.19, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/S/straitly/#x1)

### primary record

strictly

### tests

manual 10.2; corpora 2 (Torah 2, tales 0, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 0.2 (Torah alone 4.7); Wiktionary no archaic label

### In the corpora

- [Now Jericho was straitly shut up because of the children of Israel: none went out, and none came in. —](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JOS.99/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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