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Definition of Aefauld
1. Adjective. (rare dialectal chiefly Scotland) Characterised by oneness; single; without duplicity. ¹
2. Adjective. (rare dialectal chiefly Scotland) Honest; upright. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Aefauld
1. aefald [adj] - See also: aefald
Lexicographical Neighbors of Aefauld
Literary usage of Aefauld
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Psalms: Frae Hebrew Intil Scottis by Peter Hately Waddell (1882)
"... 23 I was aefauld ay wi' himsel - ... 30 For God, his gate it's aefauld ;i the
word o' the LORD, ..."
2. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1855)
"... but it is always the safest policy to do what we are about, " aefauld," and
single-minded, and to keep our eye upon our subject, altogether independent ..."
3. David Balfour by Robert Louis Stevenson (1905)
"... and are near all forgot. I remember one began: What do ye want the bluid of,
bluid of? Is it a name, or is it a clan, Or is it an aefauld ..."
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