asway

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English

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Etymology

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From a- +‎ sway.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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asway (not comparable)

  1. Swaying.
    • 1856, William Morris, “Svend and His Brethren”, in Atalanta’s Race and Two Other Tales from the Earthly Paradise[1], London: J. M. Dent, n.d., p. 188:
      Now the whole great terrace was a-sway with the crowd of nobles and princes, and others that were neither nobles nor princes, but true men only;
    • 1934, Maurice Walsh, chapter 2, in The Road to Nowhere[2], London: W. & R. Chambers:
      The man sat loosely in the saddle, his shoulders easily asway to the gait of his mount;
    • 2005, John Banville, The Sea[3], London: Picador, Part 2, p. 142:
      [] the screen was a large square of linen which any stray draught would set languorously asway,

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