Shew

/ʃoʊ/ · verb

Meaning

Archaic spelling of show..

Definitions by Sense

1. Archaic spelling of show.
2. (East Anglia) simple past of show
3. Nonstandard spelling of shoo.

Example Sentences

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).

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.

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• shews
• shewing
• shewed
• shewn
• shewen

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