Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗prep
Away from; clear of.
adv
At or from a distance, but within view, or at a small distance; apart; away. · Without sympathy; unfavorably.
adj
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryEither physically or emotionally remote: distant, standoffish.
From Middle English loof (“weather gage, windward direction”), probably from Middle Dutch (Compare Dutch loef (“the weather side of a ship”)), originally a nautical order to keep the ship's head to the wind, thus to stay clear of a lee-shore or some other quarter, hence the figurative sense of "at a distance, apart".
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