shew
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃoʊ/
ipa: /ʃəʊ/
ipa: /ʃuː/
rhymes: -əʊ
Forms: form: shews
form: shewing
form: shewed
form: shewn
form: shewed
form: shewen
Senses: examples: text: 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.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 12:1, column 2:
text: 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.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Ruth 2:19, column 1:
text: 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.
ref: 1774, “The Governor surprized the Natchez with seven hundred Men.”, in The History of Louisiana: Or of the Western Parts of Virginia and Carolina: Containing a Description of the Countries that Lie on Both Sides of the River Mississippi: with an Account of the Settlements, Inhabitants, Soil, Climate, and Products, London: T. Becket, translation of original by Le Page Du Pratz, page 42:
text: The section shewing its concavity and handle.
ref: 1786, Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, […], London: […] S. Hooper, […], →OCLC, page xiv:
text: […] Mr. Willoughby wanted particularly to shew me the place; […]
ref: 1811, [Jane Austen], chapter XIII, in Sense and Sensibility […], volume I, London: […] C[harles] Roworth, […], and published by T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 161:
text: […] 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.
ref: 1836 March – 1837 October, Charles Dickens, chapter 28, in The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1837, →OCLC, page 284:
text: We have Processions, Preachings, Festivals, Christmas Plays, Mysteries shewn in the Churchyard, at which latter the Townsfolk sometimes quarrel.
ref: 1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, “Ch. 5, Twelfth Century”, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, book II (The Ancient Monk):
text: But, as I shall soon shew, this custom, though it has the advantage of safety, is not without its disadvantages.
ref: 1884, A Square [pseudonym; Edwin A. Abbott], Flatland […] , London: Seeley & Co., Part I: This World, § 4.— Concerning the Women:
text: 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).
text: 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.
ref: 1913, John Bagnell Bury, “The Expansion of the Saracens—The East; Historical aspect of Islam”, in Henry Melvill Gwatkin, James Pounder Whitney, editors, The Cambridge Medieval History, volume 2, New York: The Macmillan Company, translation of original by Carl Heinrich Becker, published 1967, The Rise of the Saracens and the foundation of the Western Empire, page 330:
text: 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.
ref: 1921, C. K. Moncrieff, transl., Swann's Way, translation of original by Marcel Proust, page 1:
glosses: Archaic spelling of show.
Derived terms: shew forth