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well-ˈfaring, ppl. a. Obs. exc. arch.
†1. Of handsome or well-favoured appearance; good-looking; also, robust, healthy. Obs.
c1369Chaucer Dethe Blaunche 452 Than founde I sytte euen vpright A wonder welfaryng knyght. 1390Gower Conf. II. 240 Sche..thoghte hou nevere creature Was so wel farende as was he. c140026 Pol. Poems ii. 51 Welfaryng men of armes. 1470–85Malory Arthur vi. i. 184 Hym thought he sawe neuer..soo wel farynge a man. a1513Fabyan Chron. vi. clvi. (1811) 144 He was fayre and welfarynge of body, and sterne of looke and of face. 1536Pilgr. Tale 170 in Thynne's Animadv. 82 Ther I spyed walkyng a comely pryst, and a welfaryng. 1597A. M. tr. Guillemeau's Fr. Chirurg. 47/3 The entralles of a sownde and welfaring man.
†2. Couched in proper or appropriate terms. Obs.
a1400Isumbras 333 A chartir was mad fulle wele farande,..That thofe he never come in his lande, That scho solde qwene bee.
3. arch. Doing well, prosperous.
The spelling indicates association with welfare.
1888Doughty Arabia Deserta II. 116 If only his Lord would leave him here other two or three years!—then would he be fully at his ease, and a welfaring person. |