Withershins

adv

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Definitions

Adverb
  1. 1
    Alternative spelling of widdershins (“anticlockwise”). alt-of, alternative, not-comparable

    "Boils up their Livers in a Warlock's pow, Rins withershins about the Hemlock low"

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anticlockwise

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"Boils up their Livers in a Warlock's pow, Rins withershins about the Hemlock low"

Etymology

Alteration of widder- in widdershins (a borrowing from Middle Low German) after the English cognate form wither- (“against, anti-”).

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