withturn

English

Etymology

From Middle English withturnen. By surface analysis, with- +‎ turn.

Verb

withturn (third-person singular simple present withturns, present participle withturning, simple past and past participle withturned)

  1. (ambitransitive, obsolete or archaic) To turn around; turn back or away.
    • 1563, Mirror for Magistrates:
      But God of Justyce had withturnd that fate, Which where hit ought, lyght on hys proper pate.
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    • 1693, Sir James Stewart, ‎James Stirling, Naphtali:
      […] and is yet looking down to see if there be any that withturne from their iniquities, and seek after him, and he will pardon them.
    • 1711, William Drummond, ‎John Sage, ‎Thomas Ruddiman, The Works of William Drummond, of Hawthornden:
      Towns them ingulf, and late where Towers did stand,
      Now nought remaineth but a Waste of Sand:
      Withturning Eddys Seas sink under Ground,
      And in their floting Depths are Valleys found; […]
    • 2019, original 1563, Scott C. Lucas, editor, A Mirror for Magistrates: A Modernized and Annotated Edition:
      But God of justice had withturned that fate,
      Which, where it ought, light on his proper pate.
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