forway

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verb

To go out of the way; go astray; err; make a mistake; sin.

OriginMiddle English forwayen ← Old French forsveer →
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Meanings

verbforway (third-person singular simple present forways, present participle forwaying, simple past and past participle forwayed)

present singular third person forways · participle present forwaying · participle past forwayed · past forwayed

  1. intransitiveobsoleteTo go out of the way; go astray; err; make a mistake; sin.

Origin

  1. Old Frenchforsveer
  2. Middle Englishforveien
  3. Middle Englishforwayen
  4. Englishforway

From Late Middle English forwayen, forweyen (“to go astay, go out of the way”), partly equivalent to for- + way (compare Old English forweġan (“to overcome, kill”)); and partly continuing, in altered form, Middle English forveien, forsveien, forvoyen (“to err, go astray”), from Old French forsveer, forvoier (“to go astray, err”).

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