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Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryAlternative form of always.
From Middle English alwey, from Old English ealneġ, ealne weġ (“always, perpetually”, literally “all the way”), from ealne + weġ (accusative case), equivalent to al- (“all”) + way. Cognate with Scots alwayis (“always”). More at all, way.
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