withgo
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Bisbie, being then in the 55th year of his age, and 30th year of his incumbency, by vertue of an unrighteous Act of a factious and rebellious convention, was deprived of the rectory of Long Melford for not withgoing his faith and sworn allegiance to King James the Second and transferring it to William, Prince of Orange."
- ""[...] In the name of all that is dear to you, let us help you to withgo the vengeance.""
- "It has been reported in the newspapers that in South Australia several women who could afford to withgo the allowance have drawn £5, and contributed the money to the funds of the Liberal party."
- "Operators in areas outside Chicago were urged to withgo experiments with radio truck communication until the experiment in Chicago had proved the practicability and efficiency of such a highway communication program."
- "Thus, many railroads have been forced to withgo the payment of dividends in recent years while established industrial companies were able to return to a dividend schedule following the curtailment of the early thirties."
- "Abraham Gonsales, when his daughter died, wrote how it had "pleased God to take her from this miserable world ... it has caused us a great deal of grief and sorrow . . . give us strength to withgo so much sorrow for it has touched out hearts."
Etymology
From Middle English withgon (“to be in opposition to, vanish”), from Old English wiþgān (“to go against, oppose, pass away, vanish, disappear”), equivalent to with- + go.