Question

Use a dictionary to answer the following questions.

What would Shakespeare have meant in using the word prevent? How is that meaning different from today's use?
Which part of the dictionary entry did you use to find the answer?

Answer 1

Answer:

Shakespeare wrote in English. "Prevent" meant the same to him as it does to any other English speaker, to stop something from happening. An example is in Hamlet Act 3 Scene 1 in which King Claudius says, "the hatch and disclose will be some danger; which for to prevent . . ." In other words, he foresees danger which he hopes to prevent by sending Hamlet to England.

Explanation:

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Answer 2

What Shakespeare would have meant in using the word prevent is:

• To show that he wanted to stop an event from occuring

According to the given question, we can see that Shakespeare makes use of the word "prevent" in one of his plays and we are to find the meaning.

As a result of this, we are aware that William Shakespeare was a man who wrote a lot of plays and poems, of which many are still used today.

Even though he used a different variant of the English Language to write his plays, the word "prevent" meant the same to him as to any native English speaker.

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