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# waxed

«waxed» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **grew; became** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### kind

archaic sense

### modern equivalent

grew; became

### part of speech

verb, past tense of wax

### meaning for a pupil

To grow or become more of something, such as "waxed great" meaning "grew great". [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/W/waxed/#m1)

### how it differs from today

Today "wax" means a candle material or the growing moon; "waxed" meaning "grew" or "became" is no longer used.

### examples

- And the man waxed great, and grew more and more until he became very great. (Torah GEN.26.13, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/W/waxed/#x1)
- The Voyvode waxed wroth, and demanded a divorce. (Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/W/waxed/#x2)
- And God dealt well with the midwives; and the people multiplied, and waxed very mighty. (Torah EXO.1.20, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/W/waxed/#x3)

### tests

manual 6; corpora 25 (Torah 11, tales 14, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 2.8 (Torah alone 25.7); Wiktionary no archaic label

### In the corpora

- [And the man waxed great, and grew more and more until he became very great.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.746/)
- [And God dealt well with the midwives; and the people multiplied, and waxed very mighty.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.21/)
- [And they gathered it morning by morning, every man according to his eating; and as the sun waxed hot, it melted.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.468/)
- [And when the voice of the horn waxed louder and louder, Moses spoke, and God answered him by a voice.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.547/)
- [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/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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