1.Widdershins Meaning

By the mid-1500s, English speakers had adopted “widdershins,” (from the Old High German widar, meaning “back” or “against,” and sinnen, meaning “to travel”) for anything following a path opposite to the direction the sun travels across the sky (that is, counterclockwise).

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2.Widdershins Meaning

Widdershins (sometimes withershins, widershins or widderschynnes) is a term meaning to go counter-clockwise, to go anti-clockwise, or to go lefthandwise, or to walk around an object by always keeping it on the left.

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3.Widdershins Meaning

In a contrary or counterclockwise direction: “The coracle whirled round, clockwise, then widdershins” (Anthony Bailey).

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4.Widdershins Meaning

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5.Widdershins Meaning

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6.Widdershins Meaning

Origin Early 16th century from Middle Low German weddersins, from Middle High German widersinnes, from wider ‘against’ + sin ‘direction’; the second element was associated with Scots sin ‘sun’.

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7.Widdershins Meaning

Widdershins is a Scottish term (Lowland Scots) meaning counterclockwise or against the sun. The Scottish Gaelic term is tuathal, which means “Northerly”. The opposite direction is deosil or, more correctly, deiseal, or sunwise (clockwise). The term Widdershins is also used to mean any direction that isn’t the proper or usual way.

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8.Widdershins Meaning

widdershins (also withershins) A counterclockwise, circular movement used in the casting of binding and banishing spells and Curses, and in the casting of some Magic Circles. The term widdershins comes from the Anglo-Saxon term with sith, “to walk against.” The Irish equivalent is tuatal or tuathal, which means “a turning to the left …

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9.Widdershins Meaning

use in the late 16th century. The term “widdershins” was especially common in Lowland Scots, and was known in Scottish Gaelic as tuathal, or “left-hand-wise”.

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