Definition of Afar

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Definition of Afar
	Afar At, to, or from a great distance; far away; -- often used with from preceding, or off following; as, he was seen from afar; I saw him afar off. Related Definitions: Afar, As, At, Away, Distance, Far, Following, From, Great, He, Him, Off, Often, Or, Preceding, Saw, Seen, To, Used, Was, With

Afar Quotations

Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.
George Eliot

Rome - the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.
George Eliot

The miracles of the church seem to me to rest not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us from afar off, but upon our perceptions being made finer, so that for a moment our eyes can see and our ears can hear what is there about us always.
Willa Cather

People in Latin America... love America from afar and emulate America in some ways but also hate a lot of things that America does to them.
David Byrne

A movie camera is like having someone you have a crush on watching you from afar - you pretend it's not there.
Tom Stoppard

The American flag, Old Glory, standing tall and flying free over American soil for 228 years is the symbol of our beloved country. It is recognized from near and afar, and many lives have been lost defending it.
Jeff Miller

I?m married, which means that instead of occasionally wondering about men from afar, I actually live with one and can be constantly astounded by the strange male brain.
Cathy Guisewite

A movie camera is like having someone you have a crush on watching you from afar - you pretend it's not there.
Daryl Hannah

If education, culture, the higher life were shining things to be worshiped from afar, he had still a means left whereby he could draw one step nearer to them.
Mary Antin

As the knight of the quill never ventured into the fight, and only snuffed the battle afar, he knew nothing accurately of battles, but managed to pick up a few real or supposed incidents from the wounded and from stragglers.
Daniel H. Hill

Afar Translations

afar in German is von weitem, fern, weit

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