Speght is an English word starting with the letter S. With 4 example sentences you'll see exactly how it works in context.
Speght in a sentence
Context around Speght
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 1 middle, 0 end
- Sentence types: 4 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Speght
- In this selection, "speght" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 23 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, states stand out and add context to how "speght" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include appeared in speght s edition and like speght s chaucer. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "speght" sits close to words such as aaaaand, aaah and aaargh, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with speght
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Like Speght's Chaucer, Foxe's Chaucer was also a shrewd (or lucky) political survivor. (15 words)
Speght states that "In the second year of Richard the second, the King tooke Geffrey Chaucer and his lands into his protection. (22 words)
Jack Upland was first printed in Foxe's Acts and Monuments, and then it appeared in Speght's edition of Chaucer's Works. (23 words)
Speght's "Life of Chaucer" echoes Foxe's own account, which is itself dependent upon the earlier editions that added the Testament of Love and The Plowman's Tale to their pages. (32 words)
Jack Upland was first printed in Foxe's Acts and Monuments, and then it appeared in Speght's edition of Chaucer's Works. (23 words)
Speght states that "In the second year of Richard the second, the King tooke Geffrey Chaucer and his lands into his protection. (22 words)
Example sentences (4)
Jack Upland was first printed in Foxe's Acts and Monuments, and then it appeared in Speght's edition of Chaucer's Works.
Like Speght's Chaucer, Foxe's Chaucer was also a shrewd (or lucky) political survivor.
Speght's "Life of Chaucer" echoes Foxe's own account, which is itself dependent upon the earlier editions that added the Testament of Love and The Plowman's Tale to their pages.
Speght states that "In the second year of Richard the second, the King tooke Geffrey Chaucer and his lands into his protection.