Awares

adv

adv ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adverb
  1. 1
    Expectedly; with awareness. not-comparable, rare

    "But here the good work—too good, indeed, for the Senate of Rome to have been aware of ordering, or for a magistrate of Rome, awares or unawares, to execute—ceased."

Example

More examples

"But here the good work—too good, indeed, for the Senate of Rome to have been aware of ordering, or for a magistrate of Rome, awares or unawares, to execute—ceased."

Etymology

Back-formation from unawares.

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