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# unto

preposition

«unto» 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

To; towards a person or place. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/U/unto/#m1)

### Then and now

No longer used in everyday speech; today we say to.

### Examples

- And God spoke unto Noah, saying: (Torah GEN.8.15, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/U/unto/#x1)
- There replied unto him a living man: (Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/U/unto/#x2)
- For God^\[18\] is superlative in his Unity, there is none equal unto Him: what number canst thou place before One. (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/U/unto/#x3)

### Note

Today: to.

## On Mova

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