awares

English

Etymology

Back-formation from unawares.

Adverb

awares (not comparable)

  1. (rare) Expectedly; with awareness.
    • 1849, Samuel Eliot, “The Italian War for Liberty”, in The Liberty of Rome: A History. […], volume II, New York, N.Y.: George P[almer] Putnam, […]; London: Richard Bentley, […], page 306:
      But here the good work—too good, indeed, for the Senate of Rome to have been aware of ordering, or for a magistrate of Rome, awares or unawares, to execute—ceased.
    • 1883 December, John Ruskin, “Letter the 93rd. Invocation.”, in Fors Clavigera. Letters to the Workmen and Labourers of Great Britain (Second Series), volume VIII, Orpington, Kent: George Allen, →OCLC, page 226:
      And then you will have entered into another mystery of monastic life, as you shall see by the plan given of a Cistercian Monastery in the second forthcoming number of ‘Valle Crucis’—where, appointed in its due place with the Church, the Scriptorium and the school, is the Hospitium for entertaining strangers unawares. And why not awares also?
    • 1951, Shaw Desmond, Pilgrim to Paradise: An Autobiography, London: Rider and Company, page 272:
      A faith of the Communication of Saints—which is the communication between earth and heaven—between the Visible and the Invisible. And we shall hold sweet communication together Thou and I. We shall entertain angels not unawares but awares.
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