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await (only two exx. in S.; 1 is an unusual sense)
1. to look out “for” 1H6 I. i. 48 “Posterity, await for wretched years.”
2. to be in store for 2H6 I. iv. 35 “What fate awaits the Duke of Suffolk?” [echoed in line 67].
A Shakespeare Glossary. C. T. Onions. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1911.

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    • William Shakespeare, The First Part of Henry VI, 1.1
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