wellwish

plural wellwishes

1. alternativeAlternative form of well-wish.

   We have no part in the wellwish of the State power; our strength has its foundation in the people.

   1891, Pemberston Dudley, Transactions of the Fourth Quinquennial Session of the International Homoeopathic Congress and of the Forty-fourth Session of the American Institute of Homoeopathy, page 981

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   I should be sorry if your 20th anniversary issue (pronounced issue, not ishue) appeared without a wellwish word from one of your ancient collaborators.

   1944, Bernard Augustine De Voto, Saturday Review - Volume 27, page liv

   Imon and Tev, it knows, have finally sequestered to breed; to their joy Seit gives fleeting wellwish.

   1991, F. M. Busby, Slow freight, →ISBN, page 122

   Talbot never claimed to have invented that, but he considered that after inventing photography as such the whole generic negative-positive process was covered by his patent. In The Photographic Journal of June 27, 1854, Laroche wrote: "It is my intention to resist such application to the utmost of my power, and in so doing I trust that I may meet with the wellwishes and support of all who are interested in the art of photography."

   1993, The Photographic Experience, 1839 - 1914: Images and Attitudes, →ISBN

   Imagine, inside, on the dais, the king, the Swedish king greets a provincial apothecary with his wellwishes; an apothecary whom I, from his first day as apothecary apprentice, know whom I helped triturate (grind) fish—and chicken bones.

   2008, Aufoy B K Culeen, Man Without a Face: John F. Kennedy, →ISBN, page 57

present singular third person wellwishes · participle present wellwishing · participle past wellwished · past wellwished

1. alternativeAlternative form of well-wish.

   The characters in The Mayor of Casterbridge, where public opinion is so crucial, speak tolerantly, and wellwish more than they backbite.

   1975, Barbara Nathan Hardy, Tellers and listeners: the narrative imagination, page 190

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   Bells wake the morning with his age, Flares spell the evening with his name, Flags fly his praise on every roof, Crowds wellwish greetings in the streets.

   1980, W. R. McAlpine, A Vesak Oratorio: The Birth, Enlightenment and Passing Away of the Buddha

   Last Christmas we called David's house and wellwished while Zach, bald from chemo and throwing up all day, cried in frustration in the background.

   2001, Susanne Antonetta, Body Toxic: An Environmental Memoir, page 239