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Definition of 'affor'

English

Adverb

(-)

    • Preposition

    (en-prep)

    • Conjunction

    (rfv) (en-con)
  • Rather than.
    • I would die affor giving up my virtue.

    Verb

    (afforr)
  • (nonstandard) Sub-standard spelling for afford .
  • * (rfdate) Laurence de Premierfait, Des cas des nobles hommes et femmes'', as quoted in ''Lydgate's Fall of Princes (1923), The Carnegie Institution of Washington
    • Affor tyme thei wer but bestiall,
    Till thei to resoun be lawes wer constreyned,
    Vndir discrecioun bi statutis naturall
  • * (rfdate) James Raine and John William Clay, Testamenta Eboracensia: Illustrative of the History, Manners, Language, Statistics, Etc. (1869), page 126, J. B. Nichols (York, England)
    • if it please Gode, my body to be buryed in Seynt Trinite kyrke in Hull, affor the Sacrament, of the north syd of the yle [sic. ]
  • * (rfdate) Testamenta Eboracensia: A Selection of Wills from the Registry at York (1902), page 196, York District Probate Registry (England)
    • providid that if it happen one of theym to decesse affor sche be maried, her porcion to be disposed to th’use and behove of Robert my son [sic. ]
  • * (rfdate) William Chambers, Charters and Documents Relating to the Burgh of Peebles (1872), page 299, Scottish Burgh Records Society
    • The counsall ordanis the scuill master to provid ane doctur to tech the scuill, and ilk honest man that hes barinis to gif the said doctur his meit about, and ordanis the said master to wait himself better on the bairnis nor he doid affor tyme as he will andssur to thame thairvpon. [sic. ]
  • * 1399 , Rich. Redeless IV, 72
    • and somme were so ffers
    at ffrist come,
    that they bente on a bonet,
    and bare a topte saile
    affor the wynde ffresshely,
    to make a good ffare
  • * 1526-1534 , John Hackett, as quoted in The Letters of Sir John Hackett (1971), West Virginia University Library
    • know somwhat from other partyys that imagenys by som prewe conwoyanssis that is in demenyng be twyx France and Spaeyn that affor the monyth of Augost next comyng that ther salbe peace maede betwyx the Emperor and the Frenche Kyng [sic. ]
  • * 16C , title unavailable, as quoted by Arthur Geoffrey Dickens, Clifford Letters of the Sixteenth Century'' (1962), volume [''illegible''], page 116, [''illegible ] Society
    • She wold have putt in her bill of complant affor my Lord of Richmonde’s counsell [sic. ]
  • * 17C , William R. Boyd, Calendar of the State Papers related to Scotland and Mary, Queen of Scots 1547-1603
    • ...'' hagbuttares on horsbak com to this towne of Stryviling quhair all the nobilite vas assemblit, enterit vytin the towne affor any vytin knew of them. [''sic. ]
  • * 1630-1650 , William Bradford, journal, as quoted by Janet Farrell Brodie, Contraception and Abortion in Nineteenth-Century America (1994), page 38, Cornell University Press
    • prayed him to forgive her, for Lyford had overcome her, and defiled her body before mariage affor he had comended him onto her for a husband [sic. ]
  • * 1856 , the Rev. F. R. Raines, M.A., F.S.A., “Examynatyons Towcheynge Cokeye More”, page 20, Remains Historical and Literary Connected with the Palatine Counties of Lancaster and Chester , volume 37, Chetham Society
    • Theyn he and v other psons yt ys to wytt J?n Walker Wylly? Hasl? Thomas ffleccher Perys Holt ? Rog’ Leyu’ testefyed this mat’ for thrwe affor me lord the Justys of Lanchastr. [sic. ]
  • * 1867 , Ledger of Andrew Halyburton , page 214, H. M. General Register House (Scotland)
    • Item in Jun anno affor writyn, rassauit fra W. Hoper for fynans that my Lord maid wt hys fadir 500 ducatis [sic. ]
  • * 1881 , John Matthias Weylland, Our Veterans: Life-stories of the London City Mission , page 168
    • I was in here four times, and went out to try to get on, but couldn't, affor' I comed in sixteen years ago, and my old woman was in ' affor she died.
  • * 1904 , Cornelia Sorabji, Sun-babies, Studies in the Child-life of India , John Murray
    • DA?SY, Da?sy, gimme-yar-ans-er-t?ruw
    I m half cra?zy, all fur-a-luv-a-yeuw,
    I ka-ant affor a ker-ridge,
    I ka-ant affor ...
  • * 1987 , John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces , page 167, Grove Press
    • “Them peoples cain affor a whole pack, they buy they cigarette separate two cent apiece.” [sic. ]

    References

    * 1994 , Andrew E. Benjamin and Peter Osborne, Walter Benjamin's Philosophy: Destruction and Experience , page 128, Routledge *: The Latin prefix ad-'', and accordingly ''af-'', marks the opening of an act, and of an act of opening, as in the very appropriate example of ''affor , meaning ‘addressing’, for example when taking leave. ----

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