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weyleway

weyleway 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 weyleway

What is weyleway the obsolete form of?
Weyleway is the obsolete form of wellaway.

Words near weyleway in the dictionary

  1. Weyl group
  2. Weyl groups
  3. Weyl tensor
  4. Weyl tensors
  5. Weyl's paradox
  6. weyleway
  7. Weylian
  8. Weyman
  9. Weymann
  10. Weymans
  11. Weymontachi

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