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Word Meanings - WOULD - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Commonly used as an auxiliary verb, either in the past tense or in the conditional or optative present. See 2d & 3d Will. Note: Would was formerly used also as the past participle of Will. Right as our Lord hath would. Chaucer.

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  • RIGHT-RUNNING
    Straight; direct.
  • OPTATIVELY
    In an optative manner; with the expression of desire. God blesseth man imperatively, and man blesseth God optatively. Bp. Hall.
  • PRESENT
    one, in sight or at hand, p. p. of praeesse to be before; prae before 1. Being at hand, within reach or call, within certain contemplated limits; -- opposed to absent. These things have I spoken unto you, being yet present with you. John xiv. 25.
  • PRESENTIVE
    Bringing a conception or notion directly before the mind; presenting an object to the memory of imagination; -- distinguished from symbolic. How greatly the word "will" is felt to have lost presentive power in the last three centuries. Earle. --
  • RIGHTEOUSNESS
    The state of being right with God; justification; the work of Christ, which is the ground justification. There are two kinds of Christian righteousness: the one without us, which we have by imputation; the other in us, which consisteth of faith,
  • FORMERLY
    In time past, either in time immediately preceding or at any indefinite distance; of old; heretofore.
  • PRESENTANEOUS
    Ready; quick; immediate in effect; as, presentaneous poison. Harvey.
  • CONDITIONALITY
    The quality of being conditional, or limited; limitation by certain terms.
  • PRESENTLY
    1. At present; at this time; now. The towns and forts you presently have. Sir P. Sidney. 2. At once; without delay; forthwith; also, less definitely, soon; shortly; before long; after a little while; by and by. Shak. And presently the fig tree
  • CONDITIONAL
    Expressing a condition or supposition; as, a conditional word, mode, or tense. A conditional proposition is one which asserts the dependence of one categorical proposition on another. Whately. The words hypothetical and conditional may be . . .
  • COMMONLY
    1. Usually; generally; ordinarily; frequently; for the most part; as, confirmed habits commonly continue trough life. 2. In common; familiary. Spenser.
  • PARTICIPLE
    A part of speech partaking of the nature both verb and adjective; a form of a verb, or verbal adjective, modifying a noun, but taking the adjuncts of the verb from which it is derived. In the sentences: a letter is written; being asleep he did not
  • RIGHT-ANGLED
    Containing a right angle or right angles; as, a right-angled triangle.
  • RIGHTEOUS
    Doing, or according with, that which is right; yielding to all their due; just; equitable; especially, free from wrong, guilt, or sin; holy; as, a righteous man or act; a righteous retribution. Fearless in his righteous cause. Milton.
  • PRESENTER
    One who presents.
  • RIGHTEN
    To do justice to. Relieve the opressed. Isa. i. 17.
  • RIGHT-LINED
    Formed by right lines; rectilineal; as, a right-lined angle.
  • RIGHT-MINDED
    Having a right or honest mind. -- Right"-mind`ed*ness, n.
  • RIGHT-HANDED
    Having the whorls rising from left to right; dextral; -- said of spiral shells. See Illust. of Scalaria. Right-handed screw, a screw, the threads of which, like those of a common wood screw, wind spirally in such a direction that screw advances
  • WOULDINGNESS
    Willingness; desire.
  • BRIGHT
    See I
  • CARTWRIGHT
    An artificer who makes carts; a cart maker.
  • SPRIGHTLY
    Sprightlike, or spiritlike; lively; brisk; animated; vigorous; airy; gay; as, a sprightly youth; a sprightly air; a sprightly dance. "Sprightly wit and love inspires." Dryden. The sprightly Sylvia trips along the green. Pope.
  • FRIGHTFUL
    1. Full of fright; affrighted; frightened. See how the frightful herds run from the wood. W. Browne. 2. Full of that which causes fright; exciting alarm; impressing terror; shocking; as, a frightful chasm, or tempest; a frightful appearance. Syn.
  • SHRIGHT
    imp. & p. p. of Shriek. She cried alway and shright. Chaucer.
  • NONPRESENTATION
    Neglect or failure to present; state of not being presented.
  • REPRESENTABLE
    Capable of being represented.
  • OMNIPRESENTIAL
    Implying universal presence. South.
  • TOTIPRESENT
    Omnipresence. A. Tucker.
  • UPRIGHTNESS
    the quality or state of being upright.
  • OVERRIGHTEOUS
    Excessively righteous; -- usually implying hypocrisy.
  • REPRESENTANT
    Appearing or acting for another; representing.

 

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