teacheth

Gives lessons, biblically

Teacheth is an archaic form of teaches, the third-person singular present tense of teach.

The -eth ending was standard in Early Modern English and appears throughout the King James Bible and Shakespeare's works.

Experience teacheth us that resolution is a noble quality.

Modern readers encounter teacheth primarily in religious texts, historical documents, and deliberate archaisms.

biblical

scripture

Sacred religious writings

  • sermonClergy's worship address
  • parableInstructive allegorical narrative
  • proverbTraditional saying expressing truth

disciple · apostle · prophet · psalm · gospel · commandment · covenant · testament · verse · doctrine

archaic

thy

Old possessive pronoun

  • theeSecond-person object, antiquated
  • thouArchaic second-person pronoun
  • hathArchaic possessive verb

doth · verily · unto · wherefore · hence · thine · whilst · sayeth · speaketh · giveth

literary

Shakespeare

Elizabethan dramatist and poet

  • sonnetFourteen-line metered poem
  • verseMetered poetic passage
  • proseUnversified language

Chaucer · bard · quaint · ballad · allegory · fable · saga · couplet · iambic · pentameter

Opposites
pedagogical action

teachethforgetteth

Archaic for loses memory

learns · studies · unlearns · deceiveth · receiveth

linguistic register/temporality

teachethteaches

Gives lessons to others

instructs · educates · trains · tutors · schools

Phrases
Family

teaches, teacher, teachers

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