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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

wheretoward en · CCONJ

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *kʷ- Proto-Indo-European *kʷís Proto-Germanic *hwaz Proto-Indo-European *-r Proto-Germanic *-r Proto-Germanic *hwar Proto-West Germanic *hwār Old English hwǣr Middle English wher English where English where- English toward English wheretoward From where- + toward.

Meanings

  1. (archaic) Toward which.
    • Ye work / Athwart your kings, forecasting overthrows / Wheretoward ye toil, armed with the potent spell / Of that mysterious union which ye claim […] 1872, George Savage-Armstrong, (Please provide the book title or journal name):
    • [Y]ou shall see in front of you the Golden Age for a goal, wheretoward you shall labor and struggle. 2003, Katherine Tingley (ed.)
    • But for this statement one would have believed that the choice of style could only have been one of those audacious whims wheretoward youthfulness, prone to paradox, will sometimes be drawn. 1897, Aymer Vallance, (Please provide the book title or journal name):