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WANION

\wˈani͡ən], \wˈani‍ən], \w_ˈa_n_iə_n]\

Definitions of WANION

2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
1908 - Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary of the English Language

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A word of uncertain signification, used only in the phrase with a wanion, apparently equivalent to with a vengeance, with a plague, or with misfortune.

2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
By Oddity Software

A word of uncertain signification, used only in the phrase with a wanion, apparently equivalent to with a vengeance, with a plague, or with misfortune.

1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
By Noah Webster.

wan'yon, n. (obs. or Scot.) found only in phrases--e.g. WITH A WANION, bad luck to you: with a vengeance, vehemently. [Prob. conn. with wane, to decline.]

1908 - Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary of the English Language
By Thomas Davidson

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