forway

Meaning

Verb

• To go out of the way; go astray; err; make a mistake; sin.

Origin

• From Late Middle English forwayen, forweyen, partly equivalent to for- + way (compare Old English forweġan ("to overcome, kill")); and partly continuing, in altered form, Middle English forveien, forsveien, forvoyen, from Old French forsveer, forvoier.