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# wilt

«wilt» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **will (with you)** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### kind

archaic form

### modern equivalent

will (with you)

### part of speech

verb, second person singular of will (with thou)

### meaning for a pupil

You will; a form of "will" used with "thou". [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/W/wilt/#m1)

### how it differs from today

No longer used; today we say "you will"; the form "wilt" also means a plant droops, which is a different sense.

### examples

- For if thou refuse to let them go, and wilt hold them still, (Torah EXO.9.2, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/W/wilt/#x1)
- Wilt thou still keep him, Mother?” (The Jungle Book) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/W/wilt/#x2)
- And she said: 'What wilt thou give me, that thou mayest come in unto me?' (Torah GEN.38.16, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/W/wilt/#x3)

### primary record

wilt

### tests

manual 5; corpora 190 (Torah 36, tales 153, Sefer Yetzirah 1); EWT 2; ratio 4.3 (Torah alone 16.8); Wiktionary no archaic label

### In the corpora

- [And Abraham drew near, and said: 'Wilt Thou indeed sweep away the righteous with the wicked?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.465/)
- [Now Abimelech had not come near her; and he said: 'Lord, wilt Thou slay even a righteous nation?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.524/)
- [And she said: 'What wilt thou give me, that thou mayest come in unto me?'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1233/)
- [If thou wilt send our brother with us, we will go down and buy thee food;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1403/)
- [And he said: 'Oh Lord, send, I pray Thee, by the hand of him whom Thou wilt send.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.91/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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