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afar (adv.)
contraction of Middle English
of feor
(late 12c.),
on ferr
(c. 1300), from Old English
feor
"far" (see
far
); the
a-
(1) in compounds representing both
of
and
on
(which in this use meant the same thing). Spelled
afer
in 14c.
