awanting

English

Etymology

From a- +‎ wanting.

Adjective

awanting (not comparable)

1. missing; wanting; deficient or absent
   • 1852?: William Hamilton

     In either case criticism was required, and criticism was awanting.

References

• “awanting”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney and Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1914), “awanting”, in The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language, revised edition, volumes I (A–C), New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.