wayfare

American  

[way-fair] / ˈweɪˌfɛər /

verb (used without object)

wayfared, wayfaring

1. to travel, generally on foot.

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noun

1. the act of traveling; the process of making a journey.

2. protection and guidance during travel, bestowed by or requested of a higher power.

Other Word Forms

• wayfarer
  noun

Example Sentences

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Then, after taking somewhat of its foliage, he came down from the tree and went on his wayfare until he entered a city and found him a lodging.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 15 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

The sea is their dry land, And, as on cobbles you, they wayfare there.

From The Dynasts by Hardy, Thomas

Said the Wazir, "Hearing and obeying;" and after preparing himself for wayfare he set forth on his way.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 15 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

Wise and foot-free, of the tranquil tenor, He shall wayfare with the homeless tides; Time enough, when life allures no longer, To frequent the tavern death provides.

From Behind the Arras A Book of the Unseen by Meteyard, Thomas Buford

Then he farewelled them and fared on diligently night and day, till he came to Baghdad, the House of Peace and Sanctuary of the Abbaside Caliphs, unknowing what had passed during his wayfare.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 08 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

Presently appeared a Darwaysh who was travelling afoot for Bassorah, and he took seat beside me to enjoy ease after unease; whereat I asked him whence he wayfared and whither he was wending.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 13 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

Long have we wayfared, and wearied am I by the journey.

From A Maid at King Alfred?s Court by Madison, Lucy Foster

He had wayfared long; he must have had many an adventure.

From Foes by Johnston, Mary

"Along through the Stour-bordered Forum, Where legions had wayfared, And where the slow river up-glasses Its green canopy"; and one still more remarkable is the enchanting "Friends Beyond," to which we shall presently recur.

From Some Diversions of a Man of Letters by Gosse, Edmund

Much of that might have been true, but they were also living the other version of the wayfaring life.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 8, 2024

Lanky and silver-haired, Mr. Waller looked the part of the handsome wayfaring stranger, going so far as to say, “Of course I’m Robert Kincaid. Just look at me.”

From Washington Post ● Mar. 10, 2017

“I appreciate the policy—and indeed respect the wisdom behind it—of not allowing every wayfaring scholar, not to mention dabblers and rank amateurs, to sift through the Justice’s papers,” Kluger wrote.

From The New Yorker ● Nov. 24, 2014

Amid the world's continuous wayfaring, the Roman station church pilgrimage has a unique character, combining history, art, architecture and the human quest for truth.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 1, 2014

“That’ll be good enough at a pinch,” said Bigwig, munching clover and sniffing at the fallen bloom from a wayfaring tree.

From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams