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▪ I. well-wishing, vbl. n.
The action of wishing well to another; also, an expression of good wishes.
1569E. Elviden Closet of Counsels (1573) Ep. Ded., Where⁓fore..I haue beene bolde to offer you this same, as a token of my well wishing. 1586A. Day Eng. Secretorie i. (1625) 14 Not forgetting our accustomed greetings and interchangeable wel-wishings. 1617Moryson Itin. iii. 29 Hee who knowes so to live with Italians..as he can gain their well-wishing. a1672Wilkins Nat. Relig. 326 Religion..will teach them..to be generous and large in their well-wishing and their well-doing. 1909J. R. Harris Side-Lights N.T. Research ii. 78 There is much hand-shaking and well-wishing. 1911Craik Clarendon xxi. II. 190 Some one, ‘who was believed to wish well to the King’—with that sort of well-wishing which characterized the time-serving of Bennet and his confederates.
▪ II. well-wishing, ppl. a.
That wishes well to others, benevolent; † loyal. Also transf.
1597C. Middleton Chinon of Engl. iii. (1925) 20 Flying with the fauorable fortune of well wishing windes. 1623T. Scot (title) An experimentall Discoverie of Spanish Practises or the Covnsell of a well-wishing Souldier. 1768–74Tucker Lt. Nat. (1834) II. 279 Thy candid well-wishing eye. 1842S. Lover Handy Andy xvii, And glass after glass they did drink in all sorts and shapes of well-wishing toasts. 1896Black Briseis xviii. 229 Marked by a perfect self-possession—a self-possession sweet and serene and well-wishing. |