Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Dwelling; abode.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Dwelling.
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- verb Present participle of
wone . - noun A
place tolive ; adwelling ; adwelling-place ; anabode .
Etymologies
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Examples
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De wetenschapper bezweek in zijn woning in Hightstown in de staat New Jersey aan de gevolgen van een longontsteking.
Goodbye. daniel 2008
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For me there is no woning with this wicked woman, after the foul fashion in which she durst use me; so I am minded to depart from her to the caves of the
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Destroyer of the Chosroes, that thou knowest naught of the young lady nor of her woning-place.
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He naueþ bute one woning. þ̵ his bischopen muchel schame.
Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts Joseph Hall
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Thou askest me counsel of silence and of speaking, of common dieting and of singular fasting, of dwelling in company and only woning [227] by thyself.
The Cell of Self-Knowledge : seven early English mystical treatises printed by Henry Pepwell in 1521 Henry Pepwell 1902
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For it might befall that, if thou followed thy singular stirring, straitly straining thee to silence, to singular fasting, or to only woning, that thou shouldest oft times be still when time were to speak, oft times fast when time were to eat, oft times be only when time were to be in company.
The Cell of Self-Knowledge : seven early English mystical treatises printed by Henry Pepwell in 1521 Henry Pepwell 1902
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And thou sayest thou art in great were [228] what thou shalt do; for, as thou sayest, on the one party thou art greatly tarried with speaking, with common eating, as other folk do, and with common woning in company.
The Cell of Self-Knowledge : seven early English mystical treatises printed by Henry Pepwell in 1521 Henry Pepwell 1902
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The enemies of Gad are fleshly delights; but truly, from the time that a man have patience in the pain of his abstinence, false delights find no woning stead [77] in him.
The Cell of Self-Knowledge : seven early English mystical treatises printed by Henry Pepwell in 1521 Henry Pepwell 1902
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Or if thou give thee to speaking always when thee list, to common eating, or to companious woning, [233] then peradventure thou shouldest sometime speak when time [234] were to be still, sometime eat when time were to fast, sometime be in company when time were to be only; and thus mightest thou lightly fall in to error, in great confusion, not only of thine own soul but also of others.
The Cell of Self-Knowledge : seven early English mystical treatises printed by Henry Pepwell in 1521 Henry Pepwell 1902
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Nevertheless, the love that I have to thy soul stirreth me by evidence that I have of a ghostly brother of thine and of mine, touched with those same stirrings of full great [248] silence, of full singular fasting, and of full only woning, on ape's manner, as he granted unto me after long communing with me, and when he had proved himself and his stirrings.
The Cell of Self-Knowledge : seven early English mystical treatises printed by Henry Pepwell in 1521 Henry Pepwell 1902
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