All 3 Uses of
sundry
in
Macbeth
- Masking the business from the common eye
For sundry weighty reasons.p. 89.9sundry = various
- But for all this,
When I shall tread upon the tyrant's head,
Or wear it on my sword, yet my poor country
Shall have more vices than it had before.
More suffer, and more sundry ways than ever,
By him that shall succeed.p. 143.2sundry = variouseditor's notes: This part of Malcolm's pretense of being a person of bad character could be paraphrased as: "But despite all of this, when I defeat the tyrant and either trample on his head or display it on my sword, my poor country will still suffer from more corruption than before. There will be more suffering in even more varied ways under the ruler who follows him."
- He hath a heavenly gift of prophecy,
And sundry blessings hang about his throne,
That speak him full of grace.p. 149.9 *sundry = various
Definitions:
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(1)
(sundry) various; or of various kinds
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
More rarely, sundried is an alternative spelling for sun-dried--referring to something that has been dried by the sun such as raisins or bricks.