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far-off, a.|ˈfɑːrˈɒf, -ɔː-|
[f. far adv. + off adv., formerly written as two words.]
1. Far distant, remote.
a. In space.
b. In time.
c. In relationship.
a.1590Shakes. Mids. N. iv. i. 194 Like farre off mountaines turned into Clouds. 1632Milton Penseroso 74, I hear the far-off Curfeu sound, Over some wide-water'd shore. 1794Mrs. Radcliffe Myst. Udolpho vii, The far-off low of cattle. 1816J. Wilson City of Plague ii. i. 199 Our far-off friends. 1840Dickens Barn. Rudge II. xiv, The far-off places in which he had been wandering. 1855Milman Lat. Chr. (1864) IX. xiv. viii. 280 Their humble posture of far off adoration.
b.1850Tennyson In Mem. i, Who shall..stretch a hand thro' time to catch The far-off interest of tears? 1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) III. 78 The far-off result of the working of many minds in many ages. 1877A. B. Edwards Up Nile i. 18 Those far-off days of Cheops and Chephren.
c.1828Miss Mitford Village Ser. iii. (1863) 90, I..am but a far-off kinswoman.
d. Other fig. uses, e.g. of thoughts, looks, etc.
1849Hogg's Weekly Instructor III. 313/1 The far-off thoughts of earthly love and beauty. 1870W. Morris Earthly Par. III. 462 Scarce happy 'neath his far-off moody gaze. 1876Mr. Gray & his Neighbours II. 41 Alice Gray was very pale, and with that far-off look in her eyes, which those who are to die young have more than others. 1922C. E. Montague Disenchantment i. 8 The far-off, longed-for ideal of smartness. 1948L. MacNeice Holes in Sky 21 The Painter's little daughter, far-off-eyed. 1959T. S. Eliot tr. St. J. Perse's Anabasis 37 My soul engaged in far-off matters.
2. absol. in the far off: in the distance.
1866C. M. Yonge Dove in Eagle's Nest I. xii. 230 There will be freedom in rushing at last into the great far-off! 1884Sala Journ. due South i. xxv. (1887) 339 The eternal but subdued resonance of Niagara in the far-off. 1932V. McNabb in God's Way of Mercy (1937) xxi. 186 Faith brings the far-off very near, and makes the very little large.
Hence far-offness, the state or fact of being far-off, distance.
1873R. S. Candlish Serm. v. 93 My..helpless far-offness from God. 1877Mallock New Republic iv. ii. II. 208 But ah! the weariness, the far-offness of it all. |