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# lettest

verb, old form used with thou

«lettest» 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

«lettest» means «you let», a form of «let»: To allow someone to do something: "Mum let me stay up." [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/L/lettest/#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 lettest» = «you let».

### Examples

- And when thou lettest him go free from thee, thou shalt not let him go empty; (Torah DEU.15.13, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/L/lettest/#x1)

### Note

Today: you let.

## On Mova

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