Definition of "shew"
shew1
verb
third-person singular simple present shews, present participle shewing, simple past shewed, past participle shewn or shewed or (obsolete) shewen
Quotations
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.
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
[…] Mr. Willoughby wanted particularly to shew me the place; […]
1811, [Jane Austen], chapter XIII, in Sense and Sensibility […], volume I, London: […] C[harles] Roworth, […], and published by T[homas] Egerton, […], page 161
We have Processions, Preachings, Festivals, Christmas Plays, Mysteries shewn in the Churchyard, at which latter the Townsfolk sometimes quarrel.
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, book II (The Ancient Monk)
Expand the series 1 1 − x − x ( 1 − x ) 3 + 1 ⋅ 3 2 ! x 2 ( 1 − x ) 3 − 1 ⋅ 3 ⋅ 5 3 ! x 3 ( 1 − x ) 7 + ⋯ {\displaystyle {\frac {1}{1-x}}-{\frac {x}{(1-x)^{3}}}+{\frac {1\cdot 3}{2!}}{\frac {x^{2}}{(1-x)^{3}}}-{\frac {1\cdot 3\cdot 5}{3!}}{\frac {x^{3}}{(1-x)^{7}}}+\cdots } powers of x, shewing that the coefficient of x n {\displaystyle x^{n}} is S n = 1 + ∑ 1 n ( − 1 ) r ( n + r ) ! ( r ! ) 2 ( n − r ) ! 1 2 r {\displaystyle S_{n}=1+\sum _{1}^{n}(-1)^{r}{\frac {(n+r)!}{(r!)^{2}(n-r)!}}{\frac {1}{2^{r}}}} .
1908: T. J. I'a Bromwich, An Introduction to the Theory of Infinite Series, Power Series, Derangement of expansions.
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.
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
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.
1921, Marcel Proust, translated by C. K. Moncrieff, Swann's Way, page 1
noun
plural shews
Quotations
And if he did apprehend (as they ſay) nothing by the iudgement of men, he had no need to carrie his mortification ſo farre, as to dompt and ſubject his moſt inward and ſecret motions, and to pull downe the moſt liuely and ſecret prouocations of his fleſh: but it had bene ſufficient for him to haue vſed diſſimulation, and ſome outward ſhew of pretended reformation.
1620, Peter du Moulin [i.e., Pierre Du Moulin], “The Twentieth Article. Of Iustification by Faith, and What True Faith Is.”, in [anonymous], transl., The Bvckler of the Faith: Or, A Defence of the Confession of Faith of the Reformed Churches in France, against the Obiections of M. [Jean] Arnoux the Iesuite. […], London: […] R[ichard] F[ield] for Nathanael Newbery, […], section 49 (Of the Feare of the Faithfull, and Whether It Derogateth Anything from the Certainty of Saluation), page 144
Let them make ſhews of reforming while they will, ſo long as the Church is mounted upon the Prelatical Cart, and not as it ought, between the hands of the Miniſters, it will but ſhate and totter; and he that ſets to his hand, though with a good intent to hinder the ſhogging of it, in this unlawful Waggonry wherein it rides, let him beware it be not fatal to him as it was to Uzza.
1642, John Milton, The Reason of Church-Government Urg’d against Prelaty; republished in A Complete Collection of the Historical, Political, and Miscellaneous Works of John Milton, […], volume I, Amsterdam [actually London: s.n.], 1698, page 203
I NEXT paſſed into the choir; a ſcene of transformation indeed! I had been accuſtomed to contemplate here a far different order of things. Our profeſſional Merlins have waved their wands to ſome purpoſe; and all view, as their familiars invited me to believe, was to be given up to the momentary glance at an Eidophuſicon ſhew of the Reſurrection filling the Eaſt window in that ſpot late our Lady’s chapel, now the termination of the choir.
1803 December, an Architect, “The Pursuits of Architectural Innovation. No. LXVI. Salisbury Cathedral continued.”, in The Gentleman’s Magazine, London: […] Nichols and Son, […], page 1122, column 1
shew3
verb
third-person singular simple present shews, present participle shewing, simple past and past participle shewed