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someway, adv. Now chiefly U.S. colloq.|ˈsʌmweɪ|
Also some way.
[f. some a.1 + way n.]
1. In some way or manner; by some means; somehow.
c1450Cov. Myst. (Shaks. Soc.) 40 God wyl be vengyd on us sum way. 1565Cooper Thesaurus, Aliqua,..someway: by some meanes. 1570Levins Manip. 197/4 Someway, aliqua. 1641F. Greville Disc. Nat. Episc. i. x. 57 b, All someway oppose the whole Law of Christ. 1674Prideaux Lett. (Camden) 19, I will not yet dispair of Williamson's provideing for you some way or other. 1736Gentl. Mag. VI. 598/1 That his Lordship had a Right some-way to interest himself in Affairs of this Nature. 1798Edgeworth Pract. Educ. I. 147 They are to..behave in company some way differently from what they behave every day in their own family. 1822–7Good Study Med. (1829) I. 291 We shall have to contemplate..the bile as some way or other damaged in its secretion. 1890Advance (Chicago) 27 Feb., We someway think that contentment is to feel no want. 1892B. Potter Jrnl. 8 Oct. (1966) 278 They are related someway to Neil Gow. 1902W. B. Yeats Where there is Nothing (1903) v. 106, I thought he would have had half Ireland with him by this time with his great preaching, but someway when he preaches to the people, they don't seem to mind him much. 1922Joyce Ulysses 180 Pity of course: but somehow you can't cotton on to them someway. 1930W. Faulkner As I lay Dying 115 It's like he had got into the inside of you, someway. 1938M. K. Rawlings Yearling xiv. 140, I hate the hawks eatin' the quail, but I don't someway mind the 'coons eatin' the grapes. 1978Washington Post 22 July a8, I keep the windows open and run my box fan. I figure the Lord will take care of me somehow, someway.
2. At some distance. In quot. transf. of time.
Usually, and more correctly, written as two words: cf. some a.1 4 c (b), quot. 1867.
1859Geo. Eliot A. Bede iv, But then came the days of sadness, when Adam was someway on in his teens. |