afar

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  1. adverb From, at, or to a great distance: saw it afar off; traveled afar.
  2. noun A long distance: Tales from afar.

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  • Their friend the werwolf had spied them from afar, and was ready to come to their rescue. —  The Red Romance Book
  • I descried you from afar, and hastened to your help. —  The Red Romance Book
  • Like a Bacchante in her sport Beside the cup she sang her rhymes And the young revellers of past times Vociferously paid her court, And I, amid the friendly crowd, Of my light paramour was proud IV But I abandoned their array, And fled afar--she followed me. —  Eugene Oneguine [Onegin] A Romance of Russian Life in Verse
  • 'Twere best We pierced him from afar, and left him lying Upon the field Twas done: darts, lances, spears Javelins, winged arrows flew so thick That his good shield was pierced, his hauberk rent And torn apart--his body yet unharmed Veillantif, pierced with thirty wounds, falls dead Beneath the Count.--The affrighted Pagans fly The Count Rollánd stands on the field, alone Aoi THE LAST BENEDICTION OF THE ARCHBISHOP CLXIII Raging in wrath the Pagans fly, and toward The land of Spain they haste. —  La Chanson de Roland : Translated from the Seventh Edition of Léon Gautier
  • Viewed from afar, the town seemed to abase itself in the presence of the architectural preëminence of that monarch of buildings. —  Under the Rose
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  1. Middle English afer, from on fer, far, and from of fer, from afar, from Old English feor, far; see far.

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  1. from Middle English afer, aferre, ofer, afar, commonly separated, a fer, a ferr, earliest form a ferrum, on ferrum (-um is the dative suffix), of feor, equivalent in sense to Anglo-Saxon feorran, from far: Middle English of, from (English of, prefix a-), later confused with or, a (English on, prefix a-); feor, later fer, far. Cf. anear.
 

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