| 单词 |
awayward |
| 释义 |
† aˈwayward, adv. Obs.
For forms see away.
[f. away + -ward.]
Cf. the aphetic wayward.
1. a. Turned away, or in the other direction.
1205Lay. 8878 A-weiward he halde [1250 his heued heold] & nolde hit iheren. 1375Barbour Bruce xvi. 584 The Erll with the schirreff met he Awayward with thar gret menȝe. c1386Chaucer Manciple's T. 158 This Phebus gan away-ward for to wryen. c1407W. Thorpe's Exam. in Arber Eng. Garner VI. 109 The Archbishop..turned him away-ward, hither and thither. 1577Dee Relat. Spir. i. (1659) 418 Holding his face away-ward.
b. quasi-adj. Turned away, averted; wayward.
c1315Shoreham 2 We beth al awey-ward, That scholde her by-leve. c1350Will. Palerne 3985 It is a botless bale..to willne after a wif þat is a waywarde euere. 1387Trevisa Higden II. 25 Ȝif þe face is a weyward from þe water.
2. Of motion: Away.
1205Lay. 23169 Far þe awæiward [1250 aweiward]. c1380Sir Ferumb. 959 Faste a-wayward gunne þay flen. c1530More De quat. Nouiss. Wks. 78/1 Our life walketh awai ward, while our death draweth toward. |
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