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# keepest

verb, old form used with thou

«keepest» 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

«keepest» means «you keep», a form of «keep»: To keep something is to go on having it and not give it away. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/K/keepest/#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 keepest» = «you keep».

### Examples

- I hear it of thee, thou keepest far greater state than I. (More English Fairy Tales) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/K/keepest/#x1)

### Note

Today: you keep.

## On Mova

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