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# thine

determiner or pronoun, possessive form, one person

«thine» 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

Belonging to you; used before a vowel sound or on its own, as in "shall be thine." [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/T/thine/#m1)

### Then and now

No longer used in everyday speech; today we say yours or your.

### Examples

- Every thing devoted in Israel shall be thine. (Torah NUM.18.14, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/T/thine/#x1)
- "And she shall be thine," he exclaimed; "thine! (Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/T/thine/#x2)
- then thou shalt cut off her hand, thine eye shall have no pity. (Torah DEU.25.12, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/T/thine/#x3)

### Note

Today: yours.

## On Mova

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