Definitions
Examples
“Their _charge_ or injunction would shew them insensible of his wrongs, and make them _shew like enemies_.”
“I. i.199 (14,8) [And shew what we alone must think] And _shew_ by realities what we now _must only think_.”
“My speech is plaine, without any rhetoricall shew of eloquence, hauing rather a regard to simple truth, than to decking words.”
Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6) England (1 of 12) William the Conqueror
“Their titles shew the pastoral taste [4]: -- _Spring_,”
The Development of the Feeling for Nature in the Middle Ages and Modern Times
“Three articles stand in it: the table for the so - called shew-bread, the great lampstand, and the golden altar of incense.”
“The older form "shew" appears only in the earliest editions.”
“That is to say, such as shew themselves, not by the immediate self-evidence of the terms, but by consequences and deductions drawn from some known principle by human ratiocination or discourse, and the judgment which men use to pass upon things in the strength and light thereof.”
“A really big 'shew' or two on Chris Carter's 'Breakfast With the Beatles”
“The mountains are ruins, “but such as shew a certain”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘shew’.
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RELI - Genesis
Protagonists and relevant words in the Book of Creation (Source: King James Bible)
Laban, circumcise, beget, Esau, Rebekah, speckle, Sodom, Pharaoh, Canaanite, Canaan, Jacob, Lot and 1286 more...
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RELI - words with Biblical connotations
Words in the Bible evoking biblical stories or with special spiritual meaning. Proper names have been reduced to the minimum.
ark, judgement, holy, saint, baptism, spirit, love, eternal, altar, balsam, covenant, flood and 1115 more...
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Sense and Sensibility
Words from the book by Jane Austen.
shew, shewn, shewing, shewed, dupe, wither, rambled, extorting, cavil, rap, mildness, controuled and 133 more...
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Quaintnesses
For those who wish no words were ever forgotten
opprobrium, tedium, encomium, odium, ire, enmity, beguile, wile, brazen, popinjay, squit, hoity-toity and 1161 more...
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My Modern Job in the Past
Words I come across at work.
Now stripped of most military terms, which have found a new home on the list Historical Military Terms of Interest. See also (and add to!) hilarious misspe...chaise-marine, delft, delftware, quince, tympan, cresset, navvy, venn diagram, poop deck, apothecary, heliotrope, millinery and 294 more...
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botello360's list
ruminate, steel, bifurcation, arrivederci, portage, tactile, ruminant, rift, anecdotage, diacritic, cud, hull and 399 more...
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wackyvorlon's list
herein, execrable, extirpate, ameliorate, sawbuck, obstreperous, truculent, festinate, exiguous, exsanguinate, vehement, vex and 135 more...
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boggled
legal according to the dicker we use
shaw, taw, nowt, tew, frit, scow, trow, dow, roan, stipe, shew, woad and 31 more...
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archaic spellings
Tweets
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chained_bear Exactly. Well done. Oct 13, 2008
bilby Shew me an example. Oct 13, 2008
chained_bear Very 18th century; used in instances that people today would more likely use "show." Oct 12, 2008
wackyvorlon I've seen this one show up in model engineering writing from england from the '50s. Sep 24, 2008