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单词 arrear-ward
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arrear-wardn.

Forms: 1500s arrier-, 1600s arere-, arrere-ward.
Etymology: < arrear adv. + ward n.1: see arrearance n. There may have been an early arere-ward, as well as rere-ward (compare Old Northern French arere-, rere-warde), but existing evidence shows only rere-ward in 13th cent., rere-, arrere-garde introduced by Caxton in 15th cent., and arrere-ward in end of 16th.
Obsolete.
= arrière-guard n.
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society > armed hostility > armed forces > the Army > part of army by position > [noun] > rear
back-wardc1275
rearwarda1325
reredosc1400
reward1440
back-guardc1470
rearguard1481
arrière-guard1489
retroguard1574
arrear-ward1579
forlorn hope1579
train1598
back1600
rear1604
1579 G. Fenton tr. F. Guicciardini Hist. Guicciardin xiii. 739 From thauauntgarde he became in the areareward.
1589 True Coppie Disc. Late Voy. Spaine & Portingale (1881) 75 The Battaile and the arrierward stood in Armes al the night.
1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. xxxiv. 863 The second legion which was in the arrereward.
1653 S. Clarke Life Tamerlane 3 The Prince of Thanais..led the arereward.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
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