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widdershins

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Adv — In the opposite direction to the way a clock's hands move.

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First recorded around 1513, from Middle Low German weddersins (also wēder-, -sinnes), from wed(d)der- (“wither-, against, opposite”) + the genitive of sin (“direction, way”).

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