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timeward en · ADV

Etymology

From time + -ward.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable, poetic) Through time.
    • Motorized on the vehicle of will, she rode spaceward, timeward, back again, back again into the world she had left behind, hurtling past planets shifting in their orbits like women turning over in their beds […] 2005, Louise Cabral, An Uncommon Bond, page 344:
    • His name is written on the deep, the rivers as they run Will bear it timeward o'er the world, telling what he hath done c. 1858, Thomas D'Arcy McGee, The Death of Hudson:
    • To soothe his form into the grasp of death, When life its happy scale hath timeward done; […] 1854, Edmund John Whytehead, The Returns; and The Last Meeting, page 20: