withershins

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Definition of withershins

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adv

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

“Boils up their Livers in a Warlock's pow, Rins withershins about the Hemlock low”
“The intellectual sweetness of those lines / That cut through time or cross it withershins.”

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

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