Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Turned away; averse.
- Forth; forward.
- From; away from: opposed to toward.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- preposition obsolete A way from; -- the contrary of toward.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Turned away;
averse . - adverb
Forth ;forward . - preposition
From ; away from.
Etymologies
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Examples
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And from thence-fromward they be all obeissant to him.
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And fro thens fromward, thei ben alle obeyssant to him.
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And fro thens fromward, thei ben alle obeyssant to him.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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For several years, I have found it useful to employ the coined adjectives hormetic and aphormeticto characterize the tendencies fromward or toward, as exhibited in the association of ideas.
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And when the endeavour is fromward something, it is generally called AVERSTON.
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And, when the endeavour is fromward something, it is generally called aversion.
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And when the Endeavour is fromward something, it is generally called AVERSION.
Leviathan Thomas Hobbes 1633
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And fro thens fromward, thei ben alle obeyssant to him.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 08 Asia, Part I Richard Hakluyt 1584
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*** The flowers shee had wrought caried such life in them, that the cunningest painter might have learned of her needle: which, with so pretty a manner, made his careers to & fro through the cloth, as if the needle it selfe would haue been loth to haue gone fromward such a mistresse, but that it hoped to returne thitherward very quickly againe; the cloth looking with many eyes vpon her, and louingly embracing the wounds she gaue it: the sheares also were at hand to behead the silke that was growne too short.
A History of English Prose Fiction Bayard Tuckerman
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The microscope is accordingly reproduced naively with an "endeavor fromward" attached to it, and likewise the reflex, with an "endeavor toward" it. 39 Thus is the expression completed of a wish which had been partially outspoken in the conversation with Dr.X. While the external physical stimulus (scratching) must be thought of as being represented dynamically somewhere in the arrival platforms of the brain, it is necessary to think of the internal psychic stimulus (or wish) as existing in the form of facilitations, or ready-made connections of ideas and motives, as it were awaiting, in a state of mobilization, the proper signal to discharge into consciousness.
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