What is to turn aside. [Poet.] O, how are they wrapped in with infamies That from their own misdeeds askance their eyes! Shak called?
askance — To turn aside. [Poet.] O, how are they wrapped in with infamies That from their own misdeeds askance their eyes! Shak. (Webster's 1913.)
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- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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