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Definition of Awaiter
1. one that awaits [n -S] - See also: awaits
Lexicographical Neighbors of Awaiter
Literary usage of Awaiter
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1847)
"S. v awaiter. An attendant. In the ordinances for the household of George Duke
of Clarence, 1493, in " the estate, rule, ..."
2. Satirical Poems of the Time of the Reformation by Robert Sempill, Thomas Churchyard (1893)
"O.Fr. awaiter. 200. That no restraint might rest her rage, &c. = that no restraint
could curb her vehement desire to attain her ends. l?est=arrest, stay. ..."
3. The Biblical Repository and Classical Review. by American Biblical Repository (1849)
"He was the disciple, who, as the awaiter of the coming of the Lord, should not die.
The correction, in verse 23, in respect of the saying which went abroad ..."
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