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Webster 1913 Edition


Awanting

A-want′ing

,
Adj.
[Pref.
a-
+
wanting
.]
Missing; wanting.
[Prov. Scot. & Eng.]
Sir W. Hamilton.

Definition 2024


awanting

awanting

English

Adjective

awanting

  1. missing; wanting, deficient, absent
    • 1852?: William Hamilton, ? - In either case criticism was required, and criticism was awanting.

References

  • awanting in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
  • The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1914