alway

[ awl-wey ]

adverb

, Archaic.

1. always.

Word History and Origins

Origin of alway¹

before 900; Middle English allwaye, alle wey; Old English ealneweg, equivalent to ealne (accusative singular masculine of eal all ) + weg way ¹; the accusative denoted duration

Example Sentences

As she thought of him alway by day, so now in her dreams the image of Jason Fletcher was fantastically and singularly busy.

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Did the gleam of those eyes cast alway slightly downward, slightly askance—give you no discomfort?

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Mr. Warrender was, I have alway heard, an excellent person, and must be a great loss.

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For like as winter rasure doth alway arase and deface green summer, so fareth it by unstable love in man and woman.

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She had alway supposed that she was an Episcopalian with all that this implied.

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