Meanings
adverbwiddersins (not comparable)
- alternativenot comparableAlternative form of widdershins.
“[…]while the challenger rode around the lists in the course of the sun — that is, from right to left — the defender made the same circuit widdersins— that is, from left to right — which is in most countries held ominous.”
1825 June 22, [Walter Scott], Tales of the Crusaders. […], volume (please specify |volume=III or IV), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., →OCLC
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