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Webster 1913 Edition


Awayward

A-way′ward

(ȧ-wā′wẽrd)
,
adv.
Turned away; away.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.

Definition 2024


awayward

awayward

English

Adverb

awayward (comparative more awayward, superlative most awayward)

  1. (obsolete) Turned aside.
  2. (obsolete) Away (of motion).
    • 1485, Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book XVIII:
      And therewithall he groned pyteuously and rode a grete walop awaywarde from them untyll he cam undir a woodys evyse.