withturnen

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Middle English

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Etymology

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From with- +‎ turnen.

Verb

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withturnen (third-person singular simple present withturneth, present participle withturnende, withturnynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participle withturned)

  1. (transitive, intransitive) To turn around; turn back or away.
    • 1563, Mirror for Magistrates:
      But God of Justyce had withturnd that fate, Which where hit ought, lyght on hys proper pate.
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  2. To be converted.
    • 1470, Thomas Mallory, quoted by Barbara W. Tuchman in Bible and Sword: England and Palestine from the Bronze Age to Balfour:
      In that account Joseph, “by fortune come unto thys lande that at that time was called Grete Bretayne,” was able to “disheryt” a “grete felon paynim” who ruled the country, and “after that all the people withturned to the Crystyn feythe.
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