O for

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Preposition

O for

  1. (poetic) I wish that I had; may there be granted; elliptically expressing desire or prayer.
    • 1623, William Shakespeare, The Life of Henry the Fift, Prologue:
      O For a Muſe of Fire, that would aſcend / The brighteſt Heauen of Inuention :

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “O for”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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