127: Without Apr 14, 2015

The word 'without' today means lacking, and often there are occasions in speech in which it makes to use the opposite word, 'within', but not the word 'without'. In English, now, there are more functions of 'within' than 'without', but this used to not be the case. 'Within' can be used as a preposition or an adverb, while 'without' can only be used as a preposition (meaning lacking), however, there are archaic functions of 'without', in which it could be used as a conjunction, an adverb, and a preposition in the sense of location ("he was without the house, therefore, standing outside").