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Await   /əwˈeɪt/   Listen
verb
Await  v. t.  (past & past part. awaited; pres. part. awaiting)  
1.
To watch for; to look out for. (Obs.)
2.
To wait on, serve, or attend. (Obs.)
3.
To wait for; to stay for; to expect. See Expect. "Betwixt these rocky pillars Gabriel sat, Chief of the angelic guards, awaiting night."
4.
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.  
1.
To watch. (Obs.)
2.
To wait (on or upon). (Obs.)
3.
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



... required to strengthen, aggrandize, and secure the supreme power; and on the other hand, to circumscribe individual independence within narrower limits, and to subject private interests to the interests of the public. Other perils and other cares await the men of our age. Amongst the greater part of modern nations, the government, whatever may be its origin, its constitution, or its name, has become almost omnipotent, and private persons are falling, more and more, into the lowest stage of weakness and dependence. In olden ...
— Democracy In America, Volume 2 (of 2) • Alexis de Tocqueville
... it,' returned the prince as an expression of savage determination compressed his thin lips and ignited baleful fires in his restless eyes. 'Await me without; ...
— The Flaw in the Sapphire • Charles M. Snyder
... barren, monotonous country. On their way they killed an iguana ('Monitor Gouldii'), which made them a good supper, and breakfast next morning. The cattle party at No. 13 Camp were left with instructions to follow slowly along the marked-tree line, to camp at the lagoon, and there await the return of ...
— The Overland Expedition of The Messrs. Jardine • Frank Jardine and Alexander Jardine
... from streets which often were foul with dirt, smoke, and disease, and were admitted to gloomy airless wards, where pyaemia or gangrene were firmly established. In such an environment certain death seemed to await them. ...
— Victorian Worthies - Sixteen Biographies • George Henry Blore
... now arriving, have comfortable houses to receive them, will enjoy the regular attendance of a Physician in the slight sickness that may await them; will be surrounded and attended by healthy and happy people who have borne the effects of the climate, who will encourage and fortify them against that despondency, which alone has carried off several in the ...
— The Journal of Negro History, Volume 7, 1922 • Various


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