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withershin(s), widdershin(s), a.
[f. the adv.]
Moving in an anticlockwise direction, contrary to the apparent course of the sun (considered as unlucky or sinister); unlucky, ill-fated, relating to the occult.
1926D. H. Lawrence Plumed Serpent vi. 112 She made up her mind, to be alone, and to cut herself off from all the mechanical widdershin contacts. Ibid., He, too, was widdershins, unwinding the sensations of disintegration and anti-life. 1936Dylan Thomas Twenty-Five Poems 16 Shall I still be love's house on the widdershin earth, Woe to the windy mansions at my shelter? 1973G. M. Brown Magnus vi. 112 There is a black joy abroad, a dance of the deadly sins, a withershin rout. 1976Early Music Oct. 399/1 The sentiments and rituals of the court can be grotesquely guyed by the spirits (widdershins dances, sick-caricature mimes to accompany the Sorceress's prophecies and provoke those ho-ho outbursts, etc.). |