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alwayadv. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: all adj., way n.1 Etymology: Ultimately < all adj. + way n.1 Originally (in α. forms) < the masculine accusative singular of all adj. + the accusative singular of way n.1, showing the accusative in adverbial use. In β. forms with syncope of unstressed medial e and simplification of the resultant consonant group lnw , showing increasing opacity of the compound. In γ. forms apparently re-formed < all adj. + way n.1; compare -way comb. form. Compare Middle Dutch allewēge always, everywhere, in every respect (Dutch alweg always, now rare and regional (eastern)), Middle Low German allewēge , alwēge , Middle High German allewege , allewec , alwec always, (occasionally) everywhere (early modern German alweg always, German allewege (now rare) always, everywhere); also Middle Dutch alrewegen everywhere (Dutch allerwegen always, everywhere, in every respect), early modern Dutch allerweegs everywhere (16th cent.), Middle High German allerwegen everywhere (German allerwegen , everywhere, always). Compare also Anglo-Norman and Old French tute veie , Anglo-Norman tute veies , tutes veies , Old French tote voie , tote voies , totes voies , etc. (Middle French toute voie , toutes voies ) meanwhile (c1100), nevertheless, however (mid 12th cent.), always, continually (late 12th cent.), in any case, in any event (beginning of the 13th cent. or earlier); also Old Occitan tota via always, Spanish todavia (13th cent.), Portuguese todavia (13th cent.), Italian tuttavia (13th cent.), all originally in sense ‘always’ (now only ‘even, however, nevertheless’). Compare later always adv.Old English ealne weg is also attested in adverbial use in its literal sense ‘all the way, the whole way’; compare e.g.:OE Acct. Voy. Ohthere & Wulfstan in tr. Orosius Hist. (Tiber.) (1980) i. i. 16 Wulfstan sæde þæt he gefore of Hæðum, þæt he wære on Truso on syfan dagum & nihtum, þæt þæt scip wæs ealne weg yrnende under segle. Compare also Old English ealning always (apparently an alteration of ealneg , ealnig (see β. forms), after -ing suffix4); ealning seems to be particularly characteristic of sources showing the influence of Mercian usage:OE Charter: Æðelred & Æðelflæd to St. Peter's, Worcester (Sawyer 223) (transcript of damaged MS) in F. E. Harmer Sel. Eng. Hist. Docs. 9th & 10th Cent. (1914) 23 Butan þæt se wægnscilling..gonge to ðæs cyninges handa swa he ealning dyde æt Saltwic.OE Charter: Bp. Wærferð to Æðelred & Æðelflæd (Sawyer 1280) in A. J. Robertson Anglo-Saxon Charters (1956) 36 Hi..wilniað him to þæt hi syn eigðer ge hlafordes freond..ge þære cyrcan, & hig his wyllað alning hieom toearnien dæges & nihtes mid heora godcundnesse. Compare also Old English ealling always (probably an alteration of ealning , after eallinga alling adv.: compare discussion at that entry):OE Vercelli Homilies (1992) xxi. 357 God..us healdeð a wið feonda gehwæne, gif we hine soðfæstlice mid eaðmettum ealling lufiað.OE Menologium 173 Þænne ealling cymð ymb þreo niht þæs þeodum wide emnihtes dæg. N.E.D. (1884) gives the pronunciation as (ǭ·lwei, archaic ǭ:lwēi·) /ˈɔːlweɪ/, archaic /ˌɔːlˈweɪ/. Now chiefly archaic and regional. After the Middle English period alway becomes increasingly less common in standard English, being supplanted in all senses by always adv. By the 19th cent. the word survives mainly in literary and regional uses.the world > time > duration > eternity or infinite duration > [adverb] eOE King Ælfred tr. Gregory (Hatton) (1871) li. 395 Ðeah ge hine [sc. ðisne middangeard] lufigen, he eow ne mæg ealneg standan. OE (1992) x. 206 Mine þearfan me ealne weg habbað, & ic hie næfre ne forlæte. ?a1300 Vision St. Paul (Digby) 54 in (1879) 62 403/2 (MED) Þer hoe schal ben alne way. 1340 (1866) 136 (MED) 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. a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus (BL Add. 27944) (1975) I. v. xx. 204 Ȝif lif dureþ a þousand ȝere, alwey schulde growemo teeþ and moo. a1450 (c1375) G. Chaucer (Tanner 346) (1878) l. 236 For to loue hym alwey [c1475 Harl. 372 alway, a1500 Harl. 7333 alweye] ȝit neuer-the-lese. 1473 in (2007) 1473/7/8 Kepand allway his alya to the realm of France. a1500 (a1450) (Trin. Cambr.) l. 6646 (MED) And alway still he febelid passyng sore. 1599 sig. F3v For what auaileth a King, what auaileth an Emperor also, If that he lose his soule, to liue here fortunat alway? 1611 Matt. xxviii. 20 And Loe, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. View more context for this quotation 1667 N. Billingsley xxxviii. 17 'Tis said, the rod of wicked ones shall not Alway remain upon the righteous lot. 1766 A. Nicol 302 Cherubims he plac'd to wait.., their access to prevent Towards the tree of life, lest they Should eat thereof, and live alway. 1845 J. M. Neale 36 Whoso receiveth them, receiveth Thee, With them alway. 1895 R. Ford 17 But aye the ither rig was redd, An' the wark gaed on alway. 1948 C. F. Macintyre tr. P. Verlaine 93 Turn toward the poet's eyes that are filled with love alway. 1994 E. Danticat (1998) xiv. 103 I alway felt, I did, that I knew words in my head. I did not know them on paper. the world > time > frequency > [adverb] > always or in every case eOE tr. Orosius (BL Add.) (1980) iv. vii. 98 Ac hit God wræc on him swa he ær ealneg dyde. eOE King Ælfred tr. Boethius (Otho) (2009) I. xxvii. 511 Ic ðe sæde eallne weg þæt hi næfre ne bioð buton wite, ðeah þe swa ne þince. c1300 St. Mary Magdalen (Laud) l. 584 in C. Horstmann (1887) 479 (MED) Godes Aungles euer-ech day habbe me here i-nome, An ibore me alne wey ȝwane ischolde come. c1350 (a1333) William of Shoreham (1902) 105 And wo hys he þat alnewe deþ wel al þat he deþ? a1402 J. Trevisa tr. (Harl.) 23 (MED) Alwey to ȝoure owne harme ȝe kikeþ aȝenus þe pricke of kynges. 1480 J. Cely Let. 6 Sept. in (1975) 88 My sistir youre avnte comavndyth her vnto you as hartyly as she can or may, allway thankyng you off youre grett labur and besinesse. a1500 (1839) 4 Alwey he promysed he wuld do. a1500 (a1400) (Adv.) (1930) l. 227 Wethyr wee haue les or more, Allwaye thanke we God therefore. 1513 T. More (1641) 7 Not alway [1611 alwaies] for ill will, but oftner for ambition. 1535 2 Sam. xv. 2 Absalom gat him vp allwaye early in the mornynge, and stode in the waye by the porte. 1611 John vii. 6 My time is not yet come: but your time is alway ready. View more context for this quotation 1673 H. Hickman Epist. sig. a2v In such kind of Syllogismes the Reduplicative particle ought alway to be put to the major term of the Syllogism. 1726 J. Swift 15 Oct. (2003) III. 35 Is it imagined that I must be..Alway upon the qui vive and the Slip Slop. 1743 H. Fielding Jonathan Wild iii. i, in III. 194 He ran over in his Thoughts the uninterrupted Tenderness which she had alway shewn him. 1851 R. C. Trench 46 And boldly use the children's prayer alway. 1868 J. E. A. Brown 56 For he [sc. the foe] doth mark each open door alway. 1904 15 Oct. So bad de road is dat dem fellars does alway have to cut way some wid dey cutlass. 1922 D. Marquis 41 The fellowship of Caiaphas were of good repute alway—but Jesus tramped with beggar men and broke the Sabbath day. 1994 J. Kelman 51 Sammy's head was getting into a state and what was coming out wasnay alway very good. 3. the mind > attention and judgement > testing > attestation, witness, evidence > qualification > [adverb] > however, nevertheless, notwithstanding 1340 (1866) 224 (MED) Ac alnewey, ich ne zigge naȝt þet yef he deþ þe dede of spoushod [etc.]. ?1473 W. Caxton tr. R. Le Fèvre (1894) II. lf. 300v Alleway at the petycion of the grekes the kynge pryant sente breseyda to her fader. 1531 T. Elyot i. sig. D.vi I wyll nat contende, who amonge them that do write grammers..is the beste: but that I referre to the discretion of a wyse mayster. Alway I wolde aduyse him, nat to detayne the childe to longe in that tedious labours. 1615 R. Rogers lxix. 376 Christ and Iohn Baptist..were both admired by diuers sorts of people,..yet alway they so carried themselues, that the one honoured the other. the mind > attention and judgement > testing > attestation, witness, evidence > qualification > [adverb] > at all events, at any rate c1405 (c1390) G. Chaucer (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 397 Tel me alwey er that I fro thee go If any dettour hath in myn absence Ypayed thee. 1414 (Electronic ed.) Parl. Apr. 1414 §22. m. 3 Savyng alwey to our liege lord his real prerogatif. ?a1430 Compleynte Virgin (Huntington) l. 170 in (1970) i. 5 He a disciple is, & thow art a Lord; Thow al away art gretter than he is. 1489–90 (Electronic ed.) Parl. Jan. 1489 §16. m. 5 Provided alwey that this present acte begyn to take effecte at the fest of Annunciacion of oure Lady next comyng and not afore. 1555 in (transcript) (O.E.D. Archive) III. 523 Provyded allway that ys schalbe saufull to every persone Enfraunchesed. 1613 Bp. W. Cowper (Psalms cxix. 50)125 There is no sort of tentation can befal vs for which the word of God doth not furnish vnto vs sufficient consolation: Prouiding alway we make conscience of it in prosperity. 1678 J. Godolphin xxiv. 475 It [sc. adultery] may be committed in a threefold manner,..alway supposing that one or both are Matrimonializ'd, and both living. 1777 Act to prevent Waste, Destr. & Embezzlement Goods or Estates in App. xliv. 810 Saving alway unto any person aggrieved at any sentence..an appeal unto the supreme court. 1788 W. Gordon III. x. 319 If he shall obtain the Floridas from Great Britain, these United States will guarantee the same to his catholic majesty; provided alway that the United States shall enjoy the free navigation of the river Mississippi into and from the sea. a1882 R. W. Emerson (1883) 273 But in the mud and scum of things There alway, alway something sings. 1908 Oct. 6 That's the way of life, ye know; and mind, dinna get discouraged,—there's alway a height beyond. 2001 A. Rice v. 62 Also, I thought, I can alway delay the murder. I can talk with Mael now. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online June 2022). <  adv.eOE |
