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# waketh

verb, old form of «wakes» (he, she, it)

«waketh» 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

«waketh» means «wakes», a form of «wake»: To wake, or wake up, means to stop sleeping. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/W/waketh/#m1)

### Then and now

Only the ending is old: -eth was the ending for he, she and it, where today we say -s: «he waketh» = «he wakes».

### Examples

- "Stern death, thy chilling silence waketh dread; Yet in thy darkest hour there may be light. (Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/W/waketh/#x1)

### Note

Today: wakes.

## On Mova

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