godwilling
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
noun
A printed circular sent in advance by a travelling salesman to customers, naming the dates on which he hoped to visit them.
British usage; Obsolete
intj
Example Sentences
- "...so, on the other pairt, it wes to me no small confort that I sould now liue and, Godwilling, end my dayes in the tyme of a most gratious Pharao, who bothe knowes and will not forgett his evir deutisull and devoited Joseph."
- "By vertue whereof, they do hereby Declare and Publish, That they intend (Godwilling) in convenient time, to alter and abolish all such Lawes in the same, as shall be found inconsistent with the Government of the Common-wealth of England, or the Union and Incorporation of England and Scotland, and to frame and make others in their room."
- "I am about to hit a button at the base of the back of the vest, Godwilling, that will arm it."
- "But, of all kinde of paſtimes, fitte foꝛ a Ientleman, I will, godwilling, in fitter place, moꝛe at large, declare fullie, in my booke of the Cockpitte: which I do wꝛite, to ſatiſfie ſom, I truſt, with ſom reaſon, that be moꝛe curious, in marking other mens doinges, than carefull in mendyng their owne faultes."
- "That I may cleare all men againe in generall & then, godwilling, I will not desire a penny more then I haue received, till the sow Ironn cast do countervaile it."
- "Knowing that there are seven hundred and twenty radii, I might calculate, godwilling, the number of seven day cycles that I had endured since the cessation of my toil, if I knew the number of times I had traversed each of the seven hundred and twenty radii, but I did not."