wante
English edit
Noun edit
wante (plural wantes)
- Obsolete spelling of want.
- 1733, Various, Great Epochs in American History, Vol. II[1]:
- But they still followed them by guess, hopeing to find their dwellings; but they soone lost both them & them selves, falling into shuch thickets as were ready to tear their cloaths & armore in peeces, but were most distressed for wante of drinke.
Verb edit
wante (third-person singular simple present wantes or wanteth, present participle wanting, simple past and past participle wanted)
- Obsolete spelling of want.
- 1621, Azel Ames, The Mayflower and Her Log, Complete[2]:
- I trow you must excomunicate me, or els you must goe without their companie, or we shall wante no quareling; but let them pass.
- 1890, William Painter, The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1[3]:
- We shall soner wante our Fathers and Senatours, then they their plebeian officers.
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Etymology edit
From Dutch want in the meaning of "mitten".
Noun edit
wante