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# shew

«shew» in Mova's school dictionary: **an old way of writing show: to let someone see something…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (shew, shews, shewed, shewn, shewing) (old spelling of show)

### meaning for a pupil

(old spelling) Shew is an old way of writing show: to let someone see something, or to make something plain. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shew/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in old stories this spelling is used for show; today write «show», but the old book may say «shew»

### examples

- She shewed the ring to her guests. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shew/#x1)
- The bride began to shew herself in her true colours. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shew/#x2)
- He shewed them the way up the stairs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shew/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### In the corpora

- [And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JOL.50/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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