adverb

• In a direction contrary to the sun's course, considered as unlucky; anticlockwise.

  ‘she danced widdershins around him’

  More example sentences

  • ‘These are all created by either a single point of applied pressure or a combination of pressure and motion (back and forwards within track, clockwise, withershins).’
  • ‘‘Watch and learn,’ his friend replies enigmatically, before changing the clockwise finger-spin to widdershins.’
  • ‘Lets face it; I was not trapped inside a rickety old church with the dog running widdershins about it so I think I am safe.’
  • ‘‘My love then and his bonny ship turn'd withershins about’ - sing along now!’
  • ‘He waved the Mistletoe three time widdershins around his head, said the sacred words and did the dance that only Witches and Druids know.’
  • ‘She didn't waken as Ander scooped her up in his arms, carried her down the wide staircase, then turned fully withershins so that he was facing the ship's forward quarters.’
  • ‘There is something a bit skewed, a bit loopy about Lonergan people who wend their way through life widdershins, and Lonergan talk that is really front-stoop philosophizing.’
  • ‘They started to move widdershins, or counter-clockwise.’
  • ‘He flew three times widdershins round the garden before stealing the gift of speech from Sister Sun, then escaped, laughing.’
  • ‘A halfhearted pit had formed, swirling widdershins in front of the stage.’