WAYFARE

Etymology

Noun

wayfare (uncountable)

(archaic) Travel, journeying.

Verb

wayfare (third-person singular simple present wayfares, present participle wayfaring, simple past wayfared or wayfore, past participle wayfared or wayfaren)

(intransitive, archaic) To travel; make a journey.

Source: Wiktionary


Way"fare`, v. i. Etym: [Way + fare to go.]

Definition: To journey; to travel; to go to and fro. [Obs.] A certain Laconian, as he wayfared, came unto a place where there dwelt an old friend of his. Holland.

Way"fare`, n.

Definition: The act of journeying; travel; passage. [Obs.] Holland.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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