wellwish

English

Noun

wellwish (plural wellwishes)

1. Alternative form of well-wish
   • 1891, Pemberston Dudley, Transactions of the Fourth Quinquennial Session of the International Homoeopathic Congress and of the Forty-fourth Session of the American Institute of Homoeopathy, page 981:

     We have no part in the wellwish of the State power; our strength has its foundation in the people.

   • 1944, Bernard Augustine De Voto, Saturday Review - Volume 27, page liv:

     I should be sorry if your 20th anniversary issue (pronounced issue, not ishue) appeared without a wellwish word from one of your ancient collaborators.

   • 1991, F. M. Busby, Slow freight, →ISBN, page 122:

     Imon and Tev, it knows, have finally sequestered to breed; to their joy Seit gives fleeting wellwish.

   • 1993, The Photographic Experience, 1839 - 1914: Images and Attitudes, →ISBN:

     Talbot never claimed to have invented that, but he considered that after inventing photography as such the whole generic negative-positive process was covered by his patent. In The Photographic Journal of June 27, 1854, Laroche wrote: "It is my intention to resist such application to the utmost of my power, and in so doing I trust that I may meet with the wellwishes and support of all who are interested in the art of photography."

   • 2008, Aufoy B K Culeen, Man Without a Face: John F. Kennedy, →ISBN, page 57:

     Imagine, inside, on the dais, the king, the Swedish king greets a provincial apothecary with his wellwishes; an apothecary whom I, from his first day as apothecary apprentice, know whom I helped triturate (grind) fish—and chicken bones.

Verb

wellwish (third-person singular simple present wellwishes, present participle wellwishing, simple past and past participle wellwished)

1. Alternative form of well-wish
   • 1975, Barbara Nathan Hardy, Tellers and listeners: the narrative imagination, page 190:

     The characters in The Mayor of Casterbridge, where public opinion is so crucial, speak tolerantly, and wellwish more than they backbite.

   • 1980, W. R. McAlpine, A Vesak Oratorio: The Birth, Enlightenment and Passing Away of the Buddha:

     Bells wake the morning with his age, Flares spell the evening with his name, Flags fly his praise on every roof, Crowds wellwish greetings in the streets.

   • 2001, Susanne Antonetta, Body Toxic: An Environmental Memoir, page 239:

     Last Christmas we called David's house and wellwished while Zach, bald from chemo and throwing up all day, cried in frustration in the background.