warish
/ˈwɒɹɪʃ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Alternative form of warrish (“warlike”).
Example Sentences
- "Varro testifieth, that even at this day there be some there who warish and cure the stinging of serpents with their spittle."
- "... life : and that a warish, short, and transient life."
- "Because we found that operations management, strategic management of war forces, proved to have a lot of value, strategic management was shifted over into the arena of the industrial organization. So you'll notice the definition of strategy comes very much from a warish, militaristic context, i.e., the positioning of armed forces..."
- "… the state of nature is a warish, brutal state."
Etymology
From Middle English warysshen, from Anglo-Norman waris-, the present participle stem of warir, from Old French guarir (modern guérir), from Frankish *warjan, from Proto-Germanic *warjaną. Compare guarish.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: warysshen, warir, guarir, *warjan, *warjaną
Usage
Inflected Forms
warishes (present, singular)
warishing (participle, present)
warished (participle, past)
warished (past)
more warish (comparative)
most warish (superlative)