Wycliffe Gloss, Aboute-waiter: attendant

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You hate attendants to vanity of vanities.

Psalms, 30:7
■→Wycliffe volume 2, page 765

Early Version

Thou hatedist aboute waiteris, vanytes ouer veynliche.

Later Version

Thou hatist hem that kepen, vanytees superflui.

Modern English

Modern senses: servant, attendant, ■→hanger-on.

Etymology

Anglo-French waiter, guaiter to watch; Old English wæccan; akin to Old High German wahta. Please compare ■→wake.

Comparative Latin: observantes vanitates, those observant of vanity.

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