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# blessest

verb, old form used with thou

«blessest» in the English dictionary: Early Modern English — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Early Modern English

### Meaning

«blessest» means «you bless», a form of «bless»: To bless means to ask God to protect someone or something or bring them good, often by a priest or religious leader. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/B/blessest/#m1)

### Then and now

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

### Note

Today: you bless.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «blessest» in the Early Modern English dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/B/blessest/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«blessest» in the Early Modern English dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/emode/w/blessest.html) on Mova free.