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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • ` 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.

    Roosevelt�s Secret War: FDR and World War II Espionage 2001

  • 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

  • Names scrolled down the screen in front of the woman like damned souls plunging hellward.

    The False Mirror Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1992

  • 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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