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verb

Await v. t. (past & past part. awaited; pres. part. awaiting)

To watch for; to look out for. (Obs.)

To wait on, serve, or attend. (Obs.)

To wait for; to stay for; to expect. See Expect. "Betwixt these rocky pillars Gabriel sat, Chief of the angelic guards, awaiting night."

To be in store for; to be ready or in waiting for; as, a glorious reward awaits the good. "O Eve, some farther change awaits us night."

Await v. i.

To watch. (Obs.)

To wait (on or upon). (Obs.)

To wait; to stay in waiting.

noun

Await n. A waiting for; ambush; watch; watching; heed. (Obs.)

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"Await" Quotes from Famous Books

... Mr. McIver's theory, that the Temple was the work of Bantus a few hundred years ago, I think we may put the fact that an admirable drainage system has been unearthed;—drainage systems of any kind being more or less unknown to black races of a low order. In the meantime, we can but await fresh clues, which may put us upon the track of proofs, and hope that the day is not very far distant when much of the mystery will ...

— The Rhodesian • Gertrude Page

... yet to me. I've understood that two and two makes four; but how your 'belief' and poor old Betty Calvert make sensible connection I fail to comprehend. I await instruction." ...

— Dorothy's Travels • Evelyn Raymond

... view to escape from the crowd of Koraks, who squatted around us on the earthen floor, and whose watchful curiosity soon became irksome, Dodd and I lifted up the fur curtain of the polog which the Major's diplomacy had secured, and crawled in to await the advent of supper. The inquisitive Koraks, unable to find room in the narrow polog for the whole of their bodies, lay down to the number of nine on the outside, and poking their ugly, half-shaven heads under the curtain, resumed their silent supervision. The appearance in a row of nine ...

— Tent Life in Siberia • George Kennan

... third anxious day the girls searched the immediate neighborhood for Tania. When evening came they gathered sadly in the wretched farmhouse, to await the return of Tom Curtis and ...

— Madge Morton's Victory • Amy D.V. Chalmers

... morning we were induced to send our things to London, being assured by Mr. G. that he would dispatch them immediately with some things of his own that were going, and that they should certainly await us upon our arrival. In one respect it was well for us that we thus rid ourselves of the trouble of looking after them, for I never saw such blind, confusing arrangements as these English ...

— The Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe • Charles Edward Stowe

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