well-wish

plural well-wishes · alternative wellwish

1. plural normallyAn expression of positive regard and hopes for good fortune.

   Select someone to whom you can at least pretend to send well-wishes.

   2015, Robert A. Neimeyer, Techniques of Grief Therapy: Assessment and Intervention, →ISBN

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   He greeted me always, the epitome of cheer, with some gnomic well-wish that half the time I could not make out.

   1995, Richard Powers, Galatea 2.2, New York, N.Y.: Farrar Straus Giroux, →ISBN, page 245

   “Patrick Flannery?” Lilah grinned. “He is cute. Maybe you should take him some soup and well-wishes.”

   2012, Tanya Michaels, Mistletoe Hero, →ISBN

   Over the years there have been many well-wishes as a New Year dawns, certainties that this would be the year for our miracles.

   2016, Natalia Hatton, Growth in the Wilderness, →ISBN

present singular third person well-wishes · participle present well-wishing · participle past well-wished · past well-wished · alternative wellwish

1. transitiveTo express well-wishes; to wish someone well.

   We shook hands and well-wished.

   2015, Calvin E. Sturdivant, A Railroad Ran Through It, →ISBN

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   She kept an eye on Nash as he shoved his hands deep into his pockets, as Barry well-wished other congregants outside the doors of the church.

   2011, Nicole Conn, Elena Undone, →ISBN

   Then you are welcomed and well-wished by all present and ceremony is concluded.

   2013, Dennis Wheatley, The Satanist, →ISBN