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# sleepest

verb, old form used with thou

«sleepest» 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

«sleepest» means «you sleep», a form of «sleep»: To sleep is to rest with your eyes closed and your mind switched off, as you do at night. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/S/sleepest/#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 sleepest» = «you sleep».

### Examples

- Feeling perfectly bewildered by my sudden return to life and light, I murmured to myself in Arabic, "Close thine eyes, and while thou sleepest Heaven will change thy fortune from evil to good." (The Arabian Nights Entertainments) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/S/sleepest/#x1)

### Note

Today: you sleep.

## On Mova

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