Meanings
- obsoleterareuncountableWariness.
He is slow and full of wariment, and not without a mixture of fear[…]
a. 1650, James Howell, Familiar letters; or Epistolae Ho-Elianae^(https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Familiar_letters;_or_Epistolae_Ho-Elianae_(IA_familiarletterso01howe).pdf&page=48), published 1903, page 222 more examples
the whiles were enterchaunged twixt them two ; Yet they were all with so good wariment
1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLCOur primary matter is this: specialist Awkin analysts have pioneered such capability in cloning and cistron-devised therapies such that no-one today envisions a cessation of wariment or affect before 300 years of age.
2022, Michael Lamb, Joshua's Dream
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