sunwise

[ suhn-wahyz ]

adverb

1. in the direction of the sun's apparent daily motion.
2. in a clockwise direction.

sunwise

/ ˈsʌnˌwaɪz /

adverb

1. moving in the same direction as the sun; clockwise

Word History and Origins

Origin of sunwise¹

First recorded in 1860–65; sun + -wise

Example Sentences

They drank the water and then moved round the well deasil (sunwise), and before departing left an offering on the stone.

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This sunwise turn is practised in other cases, as in sickness or accident.

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He danced in a sunwise circle around them, from east to south to west to north, bobbing his head and singing.

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Wolf Paw stared, as White Bear passed his medicine stick three times in a sunwise circle over the bleeding shoulder.

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That was the wrong way round—the unlucky, uncanonical direction; the evil way, widdershins, the opposite of sunwise.

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