You hate attendants to vanity of vanities.
Psalms, 30:7
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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.
Poems by Emily Dickinson prepared for print by Teresa Pelka: thematic stanzas, notes on the Greek and Latin inspiration, the correlative with Webster 1828, and the Aristotelian motif, Things perpetual — these are not in time, but in eternity.
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