Ween

Pronunciation

 * Homophones: wean
 * Homophones: wean

Etymology 1
From wene:, from  wen:, wena:, from, from. Cognate with Wahn:.

Noun

 * 1)  Doubt; conjecture.

Etymology 2
wenan:, from. Cognate with Dutch wanen:, German wähnen:.

Verb

 * 1)  To suppose, imagine; to think, believe.
 * 2) * 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book IV:
 * ther cam a damoisel from Morgan le fay and brought vnto syr Arthur a swerd lyke vnto Excalibur [...], and he thanked her, & wende it had ben so, but she was fals, for the swerd and the scauberd was counterfeet & brutyll and fals.
 * 1)   To expect, hope or wish.

Quotations

 * 1481 Author unknown (pseudonym Sir John Mandeville), The travels of Sir John Mandeville
 * And when they will fight they will shock them together in a plump; that if there be 20000 men, men shall not ween that there be scant 10000.
 * 1562 John Heywood, The proverbs, epigrams, and miscellanies of John Heywood
 * Wise men in old time would ween themselves fools; Fools now in new time will ween themselves wise.
 * 1677 Thomas Mall, A cloud of witnesses
 * … for I ween he will no longer suffer him to abide among the adulterous and wicked Generation of this World.
 * 1793, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Christabel
 * But neither heat, nor frost, nor thunder,
 * Shall wholly do away, I ween,
 * The marks of that which once hath been.
 * 1884, W.S. Gilbert, Princess Ida
 * Yet humble second shall be first, I ween
 * 1974, Stanislaw Lem, The Cyberiad
 * Klapaucius too, I ween, Will turn the deepest green To hear such flawless verse from Trurl's machine.

Derived terms

 * overweening

Anagrams

 * Ewen
 * newe

Anagrams

 * wene

Adjective

 * 1) blue

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