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verb

Await v. t. (past & past part. awaited; pres. part. awaiting)

To watch for; to look out for. (Obs.)

To wait on, serve, or attend. (Obs.)

To wait for; to stay for; to expect. See Expect. "Betwixt these rocky pillars Gabriel sat, Chief of the angelic guards, awaiting night."

To be in store for; to be ready or in waiting for; as, a glorious reward awaits the good. "O Eve, some farther change awaits us night."

Await v. i.

To watch. (Obs.)

To wait (on or upon). (Obs.)

To wait; to stay in waiting.

noun

Await n. A waiting for; ambush; watch; watching; heed. (Obs.)

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"Await" Quotes from Famous Books

... waters. Just at dusk I had told the men on the 'Stancomb Wills' that if their boat broke away during the night and they were unable to pull against the wind, they could run for the east side of Clarence Island and await our coming there. Even though we could not land on Elephant Island, it would not do to ...

— South! • Sir Ernest Shackleton

... 1909, I was one of a small party which set out with Mr. Burroughs for the Pacific Coast and the Hawaiian Islands. The lure held out to him by the friend who arranged his trip was that John Muir would start from his home at Martinez, California, and await him at the Petrified Forests in Arizona; conduct him through, that weirdly picturesque region, and in and around the Grand Canon of the Colorado; camp and tramp with him in the Mojave Desert; tarry awhile in Southern California; ...

— Our Friend John Burroughs • Clara Barrus

... profane oaths. The man jabbered something in his native tongue, about as intelligible to me as if spoken in the language of the Bechuanas of South Africa or in that of our Sioux Indians. Returning to the shigram, I quietly prepared myself to await the issue. But the effects of my furious philippic had been complete, and in less than ten minutes the ponies were harnessed and we were ...

— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 89, May, 1875 • Various

... Empire, with the dogmatic assertion that no limit could be assigned to the duration of Roman sway. Nec terminus unquam Romanae ditionis erit. At the time this hazardous prophecy was made, the huge overgrown Roman Empire was tottering to its fall. Does a similar fate await the British Empire? Are we so far self-deceived, and are we so incapable of peering into the future as to be unable to see that many of the steps which now appear calculated to enhance and to stereotype Anglo-Saxon domination, are but the precursors of a period ...

— Political and Literary essays, 1908-1913 • Evelyn Baring

... different views of the human soul. As in all his works, there is an abundance of apparently worthless stuff in these songs; but, in the language of miners, it is all "pay dirt"; it shows gleams of golden grains that await our sifting, and now and then we ...

— English Literature - Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English Speaking World • William J. Long

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