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From aback (“rear”) + -ward (“toward”)
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Examples
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Almost invariably, Muslim women who wear the veil are considered disengaged, powerless, pawns of their men and of abackward culture.
Beyond The Veil 2007
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Then he fell abackward and slept, nor set his sword in the sheath.
The Story of Sigurd the Volsung William Morris 1865
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Then he fell abackward and slept, nor set his sword in the sheath,
The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs William Morris 1865
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