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awares

awares adverb: expectedly; with awareness. Also the third-person singular simple present indicative of aware.

Adverb

awares (not comparable)

  1. (rare) Expectedly; with awareness.
    • But here the good work—too good, indeed, for the Senate of Rome to have been aware of ordering, or for a magistrate of Rome, awares or unawares, to execute—ceased.1849, Samuel Eliot, “The Italian War for Liberty”, in The Liberty of Rome: A History. […], volume II, New York, N.Y.: George P[almer] Putnam, […]; London: Richard Bentley, […], page 306
    • And then you will have entered into another mystery of monastic life, as you shall see by the plan given of a Cistercian Monastery in the second forthcoming number of ‘Valle Crucis’—where, appointed in its due place with the Church, the Scriptorium and the school, is the Hospitium for entertaining...1883 December, John Ruskin, “Letter the 93rd. Invocation.”, in Fors Clavigera. Letters to the Workmen and Labourers of Great Britain (Second Series), volume VIII, Orpington, Kent: George Allen...

Also used as

awares is also the third-person singular simple present indicative of aware.

Origin of awares

Back-formation from unawares.

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Questions about awares

What does awares mean?
Awares means expectedly; with awareness.
What part of speech is awares?
Awares is an adverb.

Words near awares in the dictionary

  1. awareness bracelets
  2. awareness ribbon
  3. awareness ribbons
  4. awarenesses
  5. awarer
  6. awares
  7. awarest
  8. awari
  9. awarn
  10. awarned
  11. awarning

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