adown
Étymologie
[modifier le wikicode]Adverbe
[modifier le wikicode]| Nature | Forme |
|---|---|
| Positif | adown \Prononciation ?\ |
| Incomparable | — |
adown \əˈdaʊn\ invariable
- (Archaïsme) Variante de down, downward.
Many a family circle wept as they looked upon the familiar places, which would know their lost ones no more; but ah, chide me not, kind reader, in thus leading you adown to the coldness of death, in setting before you that which causes your tender heart to shudder.
— (Ferna Vale, Natalie; or, A Gem Among the Sea-Weeds, 1859)
Préposition
[modifier le wikicode]| Invariable |
|---|
| adown \Prononciation ?\ |
adown \əˈdaʊn\ invariable
- (Archaïsme) Variante de down.
I fell from one dream into another; found myself wandering through impossible places; […] peering out into the darkness, to catch a sight of a vague figure standing somewhere in the shadow, and looking, with the sun streaming into my eyes and blinding me, adown long white roads filled with a multitude of people […]
— (J. H. Riddell, The Uninhabited House)