The Collaborative International Dictionary
Awanting
Awanting \A*want"ing\, a. [Pref. a- + wanting.]
Missing; wanting. [Prov. Scot. & Eng.]
--Sir W. Hamilton.
Wiktionary
awanting
a. missing; wanting, deficient, absent
Usage examples of "awanting".
Some of them we leave unmarried, as though there were no match for them, which is surely needless, especially when there are certain unmarried goddesses, as Populonia, or Fulgora, or the goddess Rumina, for whom I am not astonished that suitors have been awanting.
For if bodily peace be awanting, a bar is put to the peace even of the irrational soul, since it cannot obtain the gratification of its appetites.
Where there is no proportion, the eye is offended, either because there is something awanting, or too small, or too large.