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wayworn

[wey-wawrn, -wohrn]

adjective

worn or wearied by travel: She was wayworn after the long trip.

Origin:
1770–80; way¹ + worn

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wayworn (ˈweɪˌwɔːn)

—*adj*
	rare worn or tired by travel: footsore and wayworn

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"The village is the place to which the roads tend, a sort of expansion of the highway, as a lake of a river.... The word is from the Latin villa, which together with via, a way, or more anciently ved and vella, Varro derives from veho, to carry, because the villa is the place to and from which things are carried.... Hence, too, the Latin word vilis and our vile, also villain. This suggests what kind of degeneracy villagers are liable to. They are wayworn by the travel that goes by and over them, without traveling themselves."

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