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▪ I. well-wish, n. Now rare.
An act of wishing well to another; a good wish. Const. to, for.
1621Lady M. Wroth Urania 435 If..these speeches haue proceeded only from your well-wishes to mee, I must be sorry for them. 1623Bp. Hall Best Bargaine Wks. (1625) 518 Our zealous well-wishes..for the vndoubted truth of our Maker and Redeemer. 1643Sir T. Browne Relig. Med. ii. §13 If this be true, I must confesse I am charitable only in my liberall intentions, and bountifull well-wishes. 1654J. Sherman (title) White Salt: or, A Sober Correction of A Mad World, In some Wel-wishes to Goodness. 1708Addison Pres. St. War 8 Any one that hath..a well Wish for his Friends or Posterity. 1709Hearne Collect. (O.H.S.) II. 288 Sends hearty wellwishes to Barnes'..design. 1816Keats Lett. Wks. 1889 III. 46 You know with what Reverence I would send my Well-wishes to him. 1872Michie Deeside Tales xiv. (1908) 138 The bridegroom..got presents o' corn an' ither gear in token o' their well wishes. 1889Hardwicke's Sci.-Gossip XXV. 226 Testifying their thanks and well-wishes to the captain and steward. 1908Westm. Gaz. 5 June 2/2 The exhibition has received the well wishes of the Archbishop of Canterbury.
▪ II. † well-wish, v. Obs.
intr. To wish well unto (another).
1586A. Day Engl. Secretorie i. (1625) 14 Thinke how exceedingly I have always well-wished unto you. |