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Webster 1913 Edition
Awanting
A-want′ing
,Adj.
[Pref.
a-
+ wanting
.] Missing; wanting.
[Prov. Scot. & Eng.]
Sir W. Hamilton.
Definition 2024
awanting
awanting
English
Adjective
awanting
- missing; wanting, deficient, absent
- 1852?: William Hamilton, ? - In either case criticism was required, and criticism was awanting.
References
- awanting in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1914