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furtherward en · ADV

Etymology

From Middle English fortherward, forþerward, equivalent to further + -ward.

Meanings

1. (archaic, dialectal, rare) Forward, onward.
   • […] and about the middle of August they again begin to flit furtherward to the sea coast. 1895, Francis Orpen Morris, A History of British Birds, volume 2, page 111:
   • And, furtherward, he turn'd and saw the lane Which led from thence and thither to the cot; […] 1867, Edward Edwin Foot, The Original Poems of Edward Edwin Foot, page 177:

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