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warweary

warweary is the alternative form of war-weary.

Meaning of war-weary

Adjective

war-weary (comparative war-wearier or more war-weary, superlative war-weariest or most war-weary)

  1. Weary or tired of war.
    • Read the language in which the poet of the war-weary Roman world salutes the Augustan empire. [...] The place which Virgil held in the estimation of pious Churchmen though the mediæval period, in which pagan and devilish were almost convertible terms, is mainly due to the almost prophetic character...1873 July, J. Baldwin Brown, “The Whole Armour of God”, in [Robert William Dale], editor, The Congregationalist, volume II, London: Hodder and Stoughton, […], →OCLC, page 393
  2. Tired from fighting in a war.
    • And whiles the honourable Captaine there / Drops bloody ſwet from his warre-wearied limbes, / And in aduantage lingring lookes for reſcue, / You his falſe hopes, the truſt of Englands honor, / Keepe off aloofe with worthleſſe emulation: [...][1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...

Forms of warweary

comparativewarwearier
comparativemore warweary
superlativewarweariest
superlativemost warweary

Questions about warweary

What is warweary the alternative form of?
Warweary is the alternative form of war-weary.

Words near warweary in the dictionary

  1. warwalking
  2. warwards
  3. warwearier
  4. warweariest
  5. warweariness
  6. warweary
  7. Warwick
  8. Warwick Farm
  9. warwickite
  10. warwickites
  11. Warwickshire

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