Wante
noun, verb ·2 syllables ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Obsolete spelling of want. alt-of, obsolete
"But they still followed them by guess, hopeing to find their dwellings; but they soone lost both them & them selves, falling into shuch thickets as were ready to tear their cloaths & armore in peeces, but were most distressed for wante of drinke."
- 1 Obsolete spelling of want. alt-of, obsolete
"I trow you must excomunicate me, or els you must goe without their companie, or we shall wante no quareling; but let them pass."
Example
More examples"But they still followed them by guess, hopeing to find their dwellings; but they soone lost both them & them selves, falling into shuch thickets as were ready to tear their cloaths & armore in peeces, but were most distressed for wante of drinke."
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