awares
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
Expectedly; with awareness.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "And then you will have entered into another mystery of monastic life, as you shall see by the plan given of a Cistercian Monastery in the second forthcoming number of ‘Valle Crucis’—where, appointed in its due place with the Church, the Scriptorium and the school, is the Hospitium for entertaining strangers unawares. And why not awares also?"
- "A faith of the Communication of Saints—which is the communication between earth and heaven—between the Visible and the Invisible. And we shall hold sweet communication together Thou and I. We shall entertain angels not unawares but awares."
Etymology
Back-formation from unawares.