Seenest

Seenest is not a standard modern English term. In linguistic and philological discussions, seenest is described as an obscure or anomalous form that appears only in a small number of late medieval or Early Modern manuscripts. It is generally treated as nonstandard, with editors most often concluding that it results from scribal variation, orthographic instability, or misreading rather than as a parallel to established inflectional patterns.

In the history of English, the second-person singular past tense commonly appears as sawest (thou sawest) or as present-tense forms such as seest/goest, while the past participle of see is seen and participates in perfect constructions with hast seen or have seen. A form like seenest would mix an apparent past participle with a second-person suffix in a way that does not align with the standard Modern English or well-attested Early Modern English inflectional system. Because of its rarity and irregularity, seenest is typically regarded as a manuscript-specific variant or a transcriptional artifact rather than a stable grammatical category.

Scholarly references to seenest are scarce, and it is not included in contemporary English dictionaries as a valid lemma. When it appears in editions, it is usually noted as a potential error or a highly unconventional spelling rather than as a recognized verb form. If seenist is intended to refer to a different concept or to a modern coinage, clarification would be needed to provide a proper entry. See also: thou, Early Modern English, sawest, seen.