Meanings
awares1
- not comparablerareExpectedly; with awareness.
But here the good work—too good, indeed, for the Senate of Rome to have been aware of ordering, or for a magistrate of Rome, awares or unawares, to execute—ceased.
1849, Samuel Eliot, “The Italian War for Liberty”, in The Liberty of Rome: A History. […], volume II, New York, N.Y.: George P[almer] Putnam, […]; London: Richard Bentley, […], page 3062 more examples
And then you will have entered into another mystery of monastic life, as you shall see by the plan given of a Cistercian Monastery in the second forthcoming number of ‘Valle Crucis’—where, appointed in its due place with the Church, the Scriptorium and the school, is the Hospitium for entertaining strangers unawares. And why not awares also?
1883 December 29, John Ruskin, “Letter the 93rd. Invocation.”, in Fors Clavigera. Letters to the Workmen and Labourers of Great Britain (Second Series), volume VIII, Orpington, Kent: George Allen, →OCLC, page 226A faith of the Communication of Saints—which is the communication between earth and heaven—between the Visible and the Invisible. And we shall hold sweet communication together Thou and I. We shall entertain angels not unawares but awares.
1951, Shaw Desmond, Pilgrim to Paradise: An Autobiography, London: Rider and Company, page 272
awares2
- indicativepresentsingularthird personthird-person singular simple present indicative of aware
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