Meaning of shew | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Archaic spelling of show.
   alt-of, archaic
2. simple past of show
   East-Anglia, form-of, past
3. Nonstandard spelling of shoo.
   alt-of, nonstandard

Examples

“NOw the Lord had ſaid vnto Abram, Get thee out of thy countrey, and from thy kinred, and from thy fathers houſe, vnto a land that I will ſhew thee.”

“And ſhee ſhewed her mother in lawe with whom ſhee had wrought, and ſaid, The mans name with whom I wrought to day, is Boaz.”

“I give it you without any other design than to shew you that I reckon nothing dear to me, when I want to do you a pleasure.”

“The section shewing its concavity and handle.”

“[…] Mr. Willoughby wanted particularly to shew me the place; […]”

“[…] partly because he has a habit of doing it, and partly because it's as well to shew the passengers how cool he is, and what an easy thing it is to drive four-in-hand, when you have had as much practice as he has.”

“We have Processions, Preachings, Festivals, Christmas Plays, Mysteries shewn in the Churchyard, at which latter the Townsfolk sometimes quarrel.”

“But, as I shall soon shew, this custom, though it has the advantage of safety, is not without its disadvantages.”

“1908: T. J. I'a Bromwich, An Introduction to the Theory of Infinite Series, Power Series, Derangement of expansions. Expand the series 1/(1-x)-x/((1-x)³)+(1·3)/(2!)(x²)/((1-x)³)-(1·3·5)/(3!)(x³)/((1-x)⁷)+⋯ powers of x, shewing that the coefficient of xⁿ is S_n=1+∑₁ⁿ(-1)ʳ((n+r)!)/((r!)²(n-r)!)1/(2ʳ).”

“Within the Christian sphere this current shews itself more especially in the territories of the Greek and Aramaic languages, and the difference between the Greek and Latin Churches is mainly that between Asia and Europe.”

“I would ask myself what o'clock it could be; I could hear the whistling of trains, which, now nearer and now farther off, punctuating the distance like the note of a bird in a forest, shewed me in perspective the deserted countryside through which a traveller would be hurrying towards the nearest station: the path that he followed being fixed forever in his memory but the general excitement due to being in a strange place, to farewells exchanged beneath an unfamiliar lamp which echoed still in his ears amid the silence of the night; and to the delightful prospect of being once again at home.”

“As I travelled, the signposts shew me the way.”

“Shew! fly, don't bother me, Shew! fly, don't bother me, Shew! fly, don't bother me, I belong to comp'ny G.”

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