different between outwith vs without

English

Etymology

From Middle English outwith, outewith, a transposed variant of Middle English withoute (“without”); equivalent to out +? with. Cognate to Scots ootwi.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /a?tw?ð/, /a?tw??/

Preposition

outwith

1. (now chiefly Scotland, Northern England) Outside; beyond; outside of.
   • 2009, Sarah Ludford MEP, Letters, The Guardian, 17 Jun 09:

     It is not acceptable to have EU-US deals on extradition, information collection and exchange, and border controls which are cooked up in secret and outwith the democratic control of the European and national parliaments.

Antonyms

• within

Translations

Anagrams

• without

English

Alternative forms

• withoute (archaic); wythoute, wythowt (obsolete), wythowte (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English withoute, withouten, from Old English wiþ?tan (literally “against the outside of”); equivalent to with +? out. Compare Dutch buiten (“outside of, without”), Danish uden (“without”), Swedish utan (“without”), Norwegian uten (“without”).

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /w???a?t/, /w?ð?a?t/
• (Canada) IPA^(key): [w?????t], [w?ð???t]
• Hyphenation: with?out

Adverb

without (not comparable)

1. (archaic or literary) Outside, externally. This is still used in the names of some civil parishes in England, e.g. St Cuthbert Without.
   • c.1600s, William Shakespeare, Macbeth

     Macbeth: There's blood upon your face

     Murderer: 'tis Banquo's then

     Macbeth: 'tis better thee without then he within.

   • 1900, Ernest Dowson, Benedictio Domini, lines 13-14

     Strange silence here: without, the sounding street

     Heralds the world's swift passage to the fire

   • 1904, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Golden Pince-Nez (Norton 2005, p.1100)

     I knew that someone had entered the house cautiously from without.

   • 2019 December 8, Supergirl (TV series), season 5, episode 8, "Crisis on Infinite Earths":

     Brainiac: This earthquake is quite literally worldwide.

     Alex Danvers: But the seismic activity [isn't] coming from within the planet, it's coming from without.

2. Lacking something.

   Being from a large, poor family, he learned to live without.

3. (euphemistic) In prostitution: without a condom being worn.

Derived terms

• a woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle
• St Cuthbert Without
• Wokingham Without

Preposition

without

1. (archaic or literary) Outside of, beyond.

   Antonym: within

   • Without the gate / Some drive the cars, and some the coursers rein.

   • c. 1689, Thomas Burnet, The Sacred Theory of the Earth

     Eternity, before the world and after, is without our reach.

   • 1967, Paul McCartney (writer), The Beatles, Sgt Pepper

     Life goes on within you and without you.

2. Not having, containing, characteristic of, etc.

   Antonym: with

   • One day my dreams were surely dying, dying, dying baby
     Just like a flower without rain
3. Not doing or not having done something.
   • 1883, Howard Pyle, The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood Chapter V

     But in the meantime Robin Hood and his band lived quietly in Sherwood Forest, without showing their faces abroad, for Robin knew that it would not be wise for him to be seen in the neighborhood of Nottingham, those in authority being very wroth with him.

Synonyms

• lacking, outwith, with no, -less, w/o, sans, -free

Antonyms

• (outside): within
• (not having): with, having, characteristic of, endowed with

Derived terms

• withoutness
• without trace, without a trace

Translations

Conjunction

without

1. (archaic or dialectal) Unless, except (introducing a clause).
   • 1913, DH Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, Penguin, 2006, p.264:

     ‘Why,’ he blurted, ‘because they say I've no right to come up like this—without we mean to marry—’

Anagrams

• outwith