Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Toward hell.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb Toward hell.
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- adverb Alternative spelling of
Hellward .
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Examples
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Combine your newly acquired knowledge about me, with the fact that I was at a training programme (which I would fondly refer to as hellward bound), and you will end up with a perfect recipe for disaster.
Kottu 2008
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What is Humbert Humbert's charged language if not an embodiment of his hellward love for Lolita, his all-inclusive intellect?
The Style of a Wild Man William Giraldi 2011
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The Catholic reactionary John Lukacs, after attending the lavish twenty-fifth anniversary bash for National Review in December 1980, held in the Plaza Hotel, hellward of the Catholic Worker House on Mott Street, wrote:
The Way Of Love/1 2008
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Or perhaps I was imagining such hellward-spiraling narratives only because my own escapes from family have had such a random, seamy, slumming quality.
The Great Escape 2005
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Or perhaps I was imagining such hellward-spiraling narratives only because my own escapes from family have had such a random, seamy, slumming quality.
The Great Escape 2005
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Or perhaps I was imagining such hellward-spiraling narratives only because my own escapes from family have had such a random, seamy, slumming quality.
The Great Escape 2005
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` What Sumner Welles is doing is wrong, but what you are doing to denigrate another man will send you down there, 'and he makes this hellward gesture.
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From the girl's tone, suddenly glacial after her cheerful rascality earlier, I could tell that the reminder had swung her mood back hellward.
Operation Luna Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1999
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Names scrolled down the screen in front of the woman like damned souls plunging hellward.
The False Mirror Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1992
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Names scrolled down the screen in front of the woman like damned souls plunging hellward.
The False Mirror Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1992
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