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

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From Middle English fromward, framward, from Old English framweard ("about to depart, departing, doomed to die; with his back turned", adjective) and framweardes ("away from", adv), equivalent to from +‎ -ward. Compare froward.

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