awanting

== English == === Etymology === From a- +‎ wanting. === Adjective === awanting (not comparable) missing; wanting; deficient or absent 1852?: William Hamilton In either case criticism was required, and criticism was awanting. === References === “awanting”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC. William Dwight Whitney and Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1914), “awanting”, in The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language, revised edition, volumes I (A–C), New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.