"withershins" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "Alteration of widder- in widdershins (a borrowing from Middle Low German) after the English cognate form wither- (“against, anti-”).",
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          "ref": "1763, Allan Ramsay, The Gentle Shephard",
          "text": "Boils up their Livers in a Warlock's pow, Rins withershins about the Hemlock low",
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          "ref": "1933, W.B. Yeats, Coole Park, 1929",
          "text": "The intellectual sweetness of those lines / That cut through time or cross it withershins.",
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  "word": "withershins"
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  "etymology_text": "Alteration of widder- in widdershins (a borrowing from Middle Low German) after the English cognate form wither- (“against, anti-”).",
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          "text": "Boils up their Livers in a Warlock's pow, Rins withershins about the Hemlock low",
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          "ref": "1933, W.B. Yeats, Coole Park, 1929",
          "text": "The intellectual sweetness of those lines / That cut through time or cross it withershins.",
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