awayward

adv — 2 senses

awayward

adv

Etymology From away + -ward.

1

Obsolete Turned aside.

2

Obsolete Away (of motion).

  • And therewithall he groned pyteuously and rode a grete walop awaywarde from them untyll he cam undir a woodys evyse.1485, Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book XVIII:

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