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wayleway

wayleway is the obsolete form of wellaway.

Meaning of wellaway

Interjection

  1. (archaic, literary) Expression of sadness, regret, remorse, etc., alas, "woe"!
    • Crying with pitteous voice, and count'nance wan; / Ah well away, most noble Lords, how can / Your cruell eyes endure so pitteous sight [...]?1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Questions about wayleway

What is wayleway the obsolete form of?
Wayleway is the obsolete form of wellaway.

Words near wayleway in the dictionary

  1. wayleaves
  2. Wayleen
  3. wayleggo
  4. wayless
  5. waylessness
  6. wayleway
  7. Waylon
  8. waymaker
  9. waymakers
  10. waymaking
  11. Wayman

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