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Definition of Awanting
1. a. Missing; wanting.
Definition of Awanting
1. Adjective. missing; wanting, deficient, absent ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Awanting
1. wanting [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Awanting
Literary usage of Awanting
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Trial of Madeleine Smith by Madeleine Hamilton Smith, Alexander Duncan Smith, Scotland High Court of Justiciary (1905)
"PS awanting. Appears on Page 35. Forbes Irvine Report. ... Incomplete and the
PSS awanting. First portion incomplete, second ..."
2. The Monks of the West, from St. Benedict to St. Bernard by Charles Forbes Montalembert, Aurélien Courson (1872)
"Nevertheless, resistance and opposition are not awanting. — Contrast nnd fickleness
of character in the kings ns in the people. — Joy of the natives of the ..."
3. Scottish Notes and Queries edited by John Bulloch (1907)
"If matter was awanting, " in such cases, though it be designed a monthly paper,
I will rather chuse to slip a month rather than disappoint my readers. ..."
4. Entomologia Edinensis: Or A Description and History of the Insects Found in by James Wilson, James Duncan (1834)
"... with the terminal joint thick at the base, somewhat conic, acute : mandibles
with a piece cut out at the apex : scutellum awanting : body very thick, ..."
5. Monthly Journal of Medical Science (1854)
"... contain the teeth awanting. No. 5. No. 6. permanent central incisor on the
left side. All the other nine are deciduous and remain firm in their sockets, ..."
6. Experimental Investigation of the Physiological Action of Saline Cathartics by Matthew Hay (1884)
"The estimations of the chlorides awanting in Experiment CXVII. are due to the
urine having had hydrochloric acid accidentally added to it. ..."
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