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alway, adv.|ˈɔːlweɪ, archaic ˌɔːlˈweɪ|
Forms: 1–2 alne weᵹ (WS. ealne weᵹ), 3–4 alne way, 4–5 alle wey, al wey, 5–6 allewaye, allwaye, alwaye, 5– alway.
[orig. two words all and way, in the accusative of space or distance, = all the way, the whole way, probably at first in reference to space traversed, but already in the oldest Eng. transferred to an extent of time, all along, all the time, continually. Afterwards confused with the genitive form, always, which has superseded it in prose, alway surviving only in poetry or as an archaism.]
1. All along, all the time, perpetually, throughout all time.
c885K. ælfred Boeth. xxxviii. §5, & þæt ealne weᵹ siofodest þæt hi ealne weᵹ næron on wite, & ic þe sæde ealne weᵹ þæt hi næfre ne bioþ buton wite. 1340Ayenb. 136 Þe wel couaytouse wrechche þet alneway heþ þet eȝe to þe guodes þet oþre habbeþ and doþ alneway and makeþ alneway semblont þet he ne heþ naȝt. c1374Chaucer Anel. & Arc. 236 For to love him Alweye [v.r. alwey, alway] never the lesse. 1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. v. xx. (1495) 126 Yf lyfe duryd a thousande yere alwaye shold growe teeth more and more. 1611Bible Matt. xxviii. 20 And Loe, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. 1845Neale Hymns for Sick 36 Whoso receiveth them, receiveth Thee, With them alway. a1858Muhlenberg Hymn, I would not live alway I ask not to stay.
2. = always 1; every time, at all times, on all occasions. Opposed to sometimes, occasionally.
c1410Sir Cleges 221 Wethyr wee have les or more, All⁓waye thanke we God therefore. 1473J. Warkworth Chron. 4 Al⁓wey he promysed he wuld do. 1513More Edw. V (1641) 7 Not alway for ill will, but oftner for ambition. 1535Coverdale 2 Sam. xv. 2 Absalom gat him vp allwaye early in the mornynge, and stode in the waye by the porte. 1611Bible John vii. 6 My time is not yet come: but your time is alway ready. 1851Trench Poems 46 And boldly use the children's prayer alway. 1868Miss J. E. Brown Lights thro' Lattice 56 For he [the foe] doth mark each open door alway.
†3. In any case, after all, still. = always 3. Obs.
a1400in Hallam Mid. Ages (1872) III. 91 Savyng alwey to our liege lord his real prerogatif. 1413Lydg. Pylgr. Sowle iv. xx. (1483) 67 He a disciple is, thou arte a lord Thou al awey art greter than he is. 1475Bk. Noblesse 34 Notwithestanding so oft tymes trewes and alliaunces taken and made..alle waye whan the Frenshe partie coude have and fynde any avauntage or coloure..they did make new werre. |