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far-away, a., adv. and n.|fɑːrəˈweɪ, ˈfɑːrəweɪ|
[f. far adv. + away.]
A. adj.
1. Situated at a great distance; remote:
a. in space;
b. in time;
c. in relationship.
1816Scott Antiq. xxix, ‘Relics..fetched frae far-awa' kirks.’ 1818― Rob Roy xiv, ‘Pate's a far-awa' cousin o' mine.’ 1851H. Melville Whale xxvi. 126 This far-away domestic memory of his young wife and child. 1876Geo. Eliot Dan. Der. III. xli. 324 Far-away ancestors. 1883Stevenson Treasure Isl. iii. xiii. (1886) 107 They..gave a cheer that started the echo in a far-away hill. 1891E. Peacock N. Brendon I. 56, I am really most gravely interested in these far-away matters.
2. a. Of a look, eye: Directed to a distance, absent, dreamy.
1881Dr. Gheist 204 That far-away look so characteristic of the human face when under the dominion of an all-absorbing idea. 1886Hall Caine Son of Hagar i. ii, The girl kneeled with far-away eyes.
b. Of a voice: sounding faint as if from a distance.
1897M. Kingsley Trav. W. Africa x. 216 A quaint, falsetto, far-away sort of voice. 1900H. Lawson On Track 83 Then he commenced to speak—..to talk in that strange, absent, far-away tone that awes one. 1926Glasgow Herald 30 Sept. 5, I heard his voice sounding in a far-away and curious tone.
Hence far-awayness, the state or fact of being far away, remoteness.
1888Univ. Rev. II. 569 The far-awayness of Europe. 1888Athenæum 13 Oct. 480/3 The presence is to be remarked of (as it were) ‘far-awayness’ of touch [in a picture].
B. adv. See far adv.
C. n.
1. What is far away; distant parts; the ‘dim distance’.
1823Hood Ode Autumn v, In the hush'd mind's mysterious far away. 18..Longfellow To the Stork i, O Stork! that dost wing thy flight from the far-away!
2. Part of a cinema film taken at a distance, as distinguished from a ‘close-up’. ? Obs.
1926B. Maine Receive It So 29 Seeing that for nine-tenths of the house these things appeared as ‘far-aways’, the whole point of them was lost, because the essence of a ‘close-up’ is that you should see a tear drop or a stamp licked, and for the moment nothing else. |