The Collaborative International Dictionary
Show \Show\, v. t. [imp. Showed; p. p. Shownor Showed; p. pr. & vb. n. Showing. It is sometimes written shew, shewed, shewn, shewing.] [OE. schowen, shewen, schewen, shawen, AS. sce['a]wian, to look, see, view; akin to OS. scaw?n, OFries. skawia, D. schouwen, OHG. scouw?n, G. schauen, Dan. skue, Sw. sk?da, Icel. sko?a, Goth. usskawjan to waken, skuggwa a mirror, Icel. skuggy shade, shadow, L. cavere to be on one's guard, Gr. ??? to mark, perceive, hear, Skr. kavi wise. Cf. Caution, Scavenger, Sheen.]
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To exhibit or present to view; to place in sight; to display; -- the thing exhibited being the object, and often with an indirect object denoting the person or thing seeing or beholding; as, to show a house; show your colors; shopkeepers show customers goods (show goods to customers).
Go thy way, shew thyself to the priest.
--Matt. viii. 4.Nor want we skill or art from whence to raise Magnificence; and what can heaven show more?
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To exhibit to the mental view; to tell; to disclose; to reveal; to make known; as, to show one's designs.
Shew them the way wherein they must walk.
--Ex. xviii. 20.If it please my father to do thee evil, then I will shew it thee, and send thee away.
--1 Sam. xx. 1 3. Specifically, to make known the way to (a person); hence, to direct; to guide; to asher; to conduct; as, to show a person into a parlor; to show one to the door.
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To make apparent or clear, as by evidence, testimony, or reasoning; to prove; to explain; also, to manifest; to evince; as, to show the truth of a statement; to show the causes of an event.
I 'll show my duty by my timely care.
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To bestow; to confer; to afford; as, to show favor.
Shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me.
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To show forth, to manifest; to publish; to proclaim.
To show his paces, to exhibit the gait, speed, or the like; -- said especially of a horse.
To show off, to exhibit ostentatiously.
To show up, to expose. [Colloq.]
Wiktionary
vb. (past participle of shew English)
WordNet
See shew
Usage examples of "shewn".
A waistcoat-maker first of all, with the 'chit of a girl' whom my grandmother had taken for his daughter, he had lost all interest in the exercise of that calling after his assistant (who, when still little more than a child, had shewn great skill in darning a torn skirt, that day when my grandmother had gone to call on Mme.
We shook the thermometer well, to erase the ominous line, as though we were able thus to reduce the patient's fever simultaneously with :the figure shewn on the scale.
And the signs of interest shewn by the people who called incessantly at the house to inquire revealed to us the gravity of an illness which, until then, we had not sufficiently detached from the count-less painful impressions that we received in my grandmother's room.
What can one positively affirm, when the thing that one thought probable at first has then shewn itself to be false and in the third instance turns out true?
The friend-ship shewn me by her 'aunt Villeparisis' and Robert had perhaps made me, for Mme.
She could also have shewn me a little sonatina which he had once composed for her.
He began to shew me exaggerated marks of respect, so as to make me forget that these had begun not upon my arrival but only after that of Saint-Loup, while, lest I should think them to have been prompted by the friendliness shewn me by his rich and noble client, he "gave me now and again a surreptitious little smile which seemed to indicate ~a regard that was wholly personal.
At the door of the Elstir gallery I found a servant waiting for me, white-haired, though whether with age or powder I cannot say, with the air of a Spanish Minister, but treating me with the same respect that he would have shewn to a King.
As, also, did that indifference shewn by the Duke to the splendour of his surroundings, in contrast to his deference towards a guest, however insignificant, whom he desired to honour.
There were many other views to be shewn, and though the weather was hot, there were shady lanes wherever they wanted to go.
Rushworth's guidance were shewn through a number of rooms, all lofty, and many large, and amply furnished in the taste of fifty years back, with shining floors, solid mahogany, rich damask, marble, gilding and carving, each handsome in its way.
His father had never conferred a favour or shewn a kindness more to his satisfaction.
Why should she lose a pleasure which she has shewn herself so deserving of?
But you have now shewn me that you can be wilful and perverse, that you can and will decide for yourself, without any consideration or deference for those who have surely some right to guide you -- without even asking their advice.
You have shewn yourself very, very different from any thing that I had imagined.