• Wayfare

    Origin

    From Middle English weyfaren, originally in participle form weyfarand, from Old English weġfarende ("wayfaring"), equivalent to way + faring. Cognate with Danish vejfarende ("wayfaring"), Swedish vägfarande, Icelandic vegfarandi ("wayfaring"). More at way, fare.

    Full definition of wayfare

    Noun

    wayfare

    (uncountable)
    1. (archaic) Travel, journeying.
      • 1827, Sir_Walter_Scott, The Journal of Sir Walter Scott, 13 May,What frightens and disgusts me is those fearful letters from those who have been long dead, to those who linger on their wayfare through this valley of tears.

    Verb

    1. (intransitive, archaic) To travel; make a journey.
      • HollandA certain Laconian, as he wayfared, came unto a place where there dwelt an old friend of his.
      • 1904, Thomas_Hardy, The Dynasts, part 1, act 6, sc. 7,The sea is their dry land,And, as on cobbles you, they wayfare there.

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