Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Somewhat late; belated; backward.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- obsolete Somewhat late; backward.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb obsolete rather
late
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Examples
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The lateward seed, or that which is hid and lieth long in the earth; "The wheat and the spelt which do not soon ripen, are sown in Marchesvan; the early seed, the barley, which soon ripens, is sown in Shebat and Adar."
From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979
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But the wheat, and other winter corn were not hurt, because they were lateward.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete Anonymous
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Therefore the showers were withholden, and there was no lateward rain: thou hadst a harlot's forehead, thou wouldst not blush.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 28: Jeremias The Challoner Revision
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But the wheat, and other winter corn were not hurt, because they were lateward.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 02: Exodus The Challoner Revision
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See ye the word of the Lord: Am I become a wilderness to Israel, or a lateward springing land? why then have my people said: We are revolted, we will come to thee no more?
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 28: Jeremias The Challoner Revision
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And those that were lateward, became Laban's; and they of the first time, Jacob's.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete Anonymous
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Therefore the showers were withholden, and there was no lateward rain: thou hadst a harlot's forehead, thou wouldst not blush.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete Anonymous
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See ye the word of the Lord: Am I become a wilderness to Israel, or a lateward springing land? why then have my people said: We are revolted, we will come to thee no more?
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See ye the word of the Lord: Am I become a wilderness to Israel, or a lateward springing land? why then have my people said: We are revolted, we will come to thee no more?
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete Anonymous
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Therefore the showers were withholden, and there was no lateward rain: thou hadst a harlot's forehead, thou wouldst not blush.
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