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Noun edit

bye-stander (plural bye-standers)

  1. Obsolete form of bystander.
    • 1785, Thomas Marryat, Therapeutics; or, The Art of Healing, 7th edition, Birmingham: [] Pearson and Rollason; and sold by R. Baldwin, [], London, pages 35–36:
      Æruginous vomiting, ſpitting at the bye-ſtanders, gnaſhing or grinding of the teeth, or ſnatching at the bed-clothes, are the fore-runners of a diſſolution.
    • 1814 July, [Jane Austen], chapter XV, in Mansfield Park: [], volume I, London: [] T[homas] Egerton, [], →OCLC, page 300:
      His being only a bye-stander was not disclaimed.
    • 1819, John Lewis Burckhardt, Travels in Nubia, London: John Murray, [], page 356:
      If a bye-stander assists one of the parties with his advice, it gives no offence to the other; []