alwise

adv

alwise

adv

Etymology From all + wise (“way, manner, method”).

1

Archaic In every way; always.

  • “By these Treaties we became Brethren; we have alwise lived as such, and hope alwise to continue so.”1735-1745, Minutes of the Provincial Council of Pennsylvania, volume 4, published 1851, page 704:
Related terms
-wise, nowise

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