withturn

present singular third person withturns · participle present withturning · participle past withturned · past withturned

1. ambitransitivearchaicobsoleteTo turn around; turn back or away.

   But God of justice had withturned that fate, Which, where it ought, light on his proper pate.

   2019, original 1563, Scott C. Lucas, editor, A Mirror for Magistrates: A Modernized and Annotated Edition

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   But God of Justyce had withturnd that fate, Which where hit ought, lyght on hys proper pate. (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   1563, Mirror for Magistrates

   […] and is yet looking down to see if there be any that withturne from their iniquities, and seek after him, and he will pardon them.

   1693, Sir James Stewart, James Stirling, Naphtali

   Towns them ingulf, and late where Towers did stand, Now nought remaineth but a Waste of Sand: Withturning Eddys Seas sink under Ground, And in their floting Depths are Valleys found; […]

   1711, William Drummond, John Sage, Thomas Ruddiman, The Works of William Drummond, of Hawthornden