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He, comming home at undertime, there found / The fayrest creature, that he euer saw, / Sitting beside his mother on the ground; / The sight whereof did greatly him adaw.
1583, Brian Melbancke, Philotimus. The warre betwixt nature and fortune, page 123:
But friezing colde adawes the frying heate[…]
1658, James Ussher, The annals of the world deduced from the origin of time, page 249:
They perceiving, and being adawed at his constancy and resolution, took the advantage of a darke night, and fled every man of them, by that way out of the rock.
And hir awook, and thus to hir he cried, "Woman, what is that, that in thin hand I see? What hast thou doon, woman, for him that diede, What wickid spirit hath travaylid the?" And as sone as that adawed was she, The knyfe fel oute of hir hand in the bedde, And she bihilde the cloothis al forbledde, And the childe dead.
1560, William Baldwin, The funeralles of King Edward the sixt:
The soulles body about the bed did sprall, / While they about it on the King did call, / Adawing him as if he wer in swound: / But all for nought, he had his deadly wound.
2021, Iraklis Ioannidis, Altruism or the Other as the Essence of Existence:
To arrive to knowledge is to have an itinerary, a passage out of dreaming, to adaw, to be awake (délit).