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# shewed

verb, past tense of shew

«shewed» 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

Let someone see something, or made something plain, in the past. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/S/shewed/#m1)

### Then and now

Old spelling of showed; today we write showed. The sentences use the same sense.

### Examples

- He was shewed up stairs into the King's apartment, and, making a low reverence, said to him: (The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/S/shewed/#x1)
- For He shewed the combination of these letters, each with the other; Aleph with all, and all with Aleph; Beth with all, and all with Beth. (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/S/shewed/#x2)
- And here is the finger with the ring.’ And with these words the bride drew forth the finger and shewed it to the assembled guests. (Grimms' Fairy Tales) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/S/shewed/#x3)

### Note

Today: showed.

## On Mova

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