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▪ I. wayfaring, vbl. n. Somewhat arch.|ˈweɪfɛərɪŋ|
[f. way n.1 + faring vbl. n., after wayfaring a.]
Journeying, travelling; an instance of this. Also fig.
1536Primer Eng. & Lat., Commend. (Rouen) 149 b, Thy iustifications were to me songes in y⊇ place of my wayfaring. 1540Palsgr. Acolastus ii. iii. L iv, Wherfore comest thou a wayfarynge into this countrey..? 1548Udall Erasm. Par. Acts ii. 22–28 He him selfe went on wayfarynge frome place to place. 1561T. Norton Calvin's Inst. iii. xxv. (1634) 484 To us the onely and perfect felicitie is knowne even in this earthly waifaring. a1677Barrow Wks. (1686) III. Serm. xv. 178 The Scripture aptly resembles our life to a wayfaring, a condition of travel and pilgrimage. 1818Keats Endym. i. 132 That I may dare, in wayfaring, To stammer where old Chaucer used to sing. 1832W. Irving Alhambra (1851) 122 To hear a mass and put up a prayer for a prosperous wayfaring across the Sierra. 1840Dickens Old C. Shop xlii, Gipsy camps they had passed in their wayfaring. 1881A. O'Shaughnessy Songs of a Worker 42 A certain traveller, sad and..worn With wayfaring.
b. Comb., as wayfaring-journey, wayfaring-life, wayfaring-sketch; † wayfaring-book, an itinerary; † wayfaring-shrub = wayfaring-tree.
1549in Strype Eccl. Mem. (1721) III. App. lxxxiii. 289 Give us Grace to forget this Way-faring Journey, and to remember our proper and true Country. 1610Holland Camden's Brit. i. 204 No farther this way did Antonine specifie any place in his way-faring book. 1614Lithgow Trav. B 4 Some notable illusions..which I found in my wayfaring iourney. 1731Miller Gard. Dict. s.v. Viscum, The Bark of our Lantone or Way-faring Shrub. 1847Miss F. Skene (title) Wayfaring Sketches among the Greeks and Turks. 1889Lucy Toulmin Smith (title) English Wayfaring Life in the Middle Ages [tr. J. J. Jusserand La Vie nomade].
▪ II. wayfaring, ppl. a. arch.|ˈweɪfɛərɪŋ|
Forms: 1 weᵹfarende, 4 weyfarende, -faringe, -varyng, (5 -fareng), 4–6 wayfarynge, -inge, 6 wayefa(y)rynge, waifaring, 7 way-fairing, 6– wayfaring.
[OE. weᵹfarende, f. weᵹ way n.1 + pres. pple. of faran fare v.1 Cf. Icel. (14th c.) vegfarandi, MSw. vägh-, Sw. vägfarande, Da. veifarende. Cf. the cognate wayfering.]
Travelling or journeying by road. Usually wayfaring man, a traveller by road. Also fig.
c1000ælfric Saints' Lives xxvi. 204 Sum weᵹfarende man ferde wið þone feld. c1330R. Brunne Chron. Wace 3659 We ar..Weyfarende men þat wolde haue gryþ. 1387Trevisa Higden V. 449 For refresshynge and socour of way farynge [MS. γ weyvaryng] men. 1502W. Atkynson tr. De Imitatione iii. xxiii. (1893) 216 O iesu,..the solace & conforte of wayfarynge soules. 1545R. Ascham Toxoph. ii. (Arb.) 157 The waye beyng sumwhat trodden afore, by waye fayrynge men. 1597Hooker Eccl. Pol. v. lxxviii. §11. 241 The necessities of trauailers waifaring men and such like. 1611Bible Isa. xxxv. 8 The wayfaringmen, though fooles, shall not erre therein. 1678Bunyan Pilgr. i. 155 When the Shepherds perceived that they were way-fairing men, they also put questions to them,..as, Whence came you? 1897‘Edna Lyall’ (title) Wayfaring Men.
†b. wayfaring man's tree, the fuller form of wayfaring-tree.
Both are found in Gerarde for the first time, but only the latter survived.
1597Gerarde Herbal iii. cxv. 1305 The Wayfaring mans tree groweth vp to the height of an hedge tree, of a meane bignesse.
Hence wayfaringly adv. rare.
1552Huloet, Wayfayryngly, peregrine, uiatice. |