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adjective

Upward adj. Directed toward a higher place; as, with upward eye; with upward course.

adverb

Upwards, Upward adv.

In a direction from lower to higher; toward a higher place; in a course toward the source or origin; opposed to downward; as, to tend or roll upward. "Looking inward, we are stricken dumb; looking upward, we speak and prevail."

In the upper parts; above. "Dagon his name, sea monster, upward man, And down ward fish."

Yet more; indefinitely more; above; over. "From twenty years old and upward."

Upward of, or Upwards of, more than; above. "I have been your wife in this obedience Upward of twenty years."

noun

Upward n. The upper part; the top. (Obs.) "From the extremest upward of thy head."

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Etymology of 'Upward'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Upward" Quotes from Famous Books

... my sight, The storms of life before thee fled; The glory and the guiding light, That onward cheer'd and upward led; From boyhood to this very hour, For me, and only me, thy flower Its fragrance seem'd ...

— The Life of Mansie Wauch - Tailor in Dalkeith, written by himself • David Macbeth Moir

... is evolving as we believe it is, and if it is to be viewed with rational insight as an upward process—irresistibly involves and implies some sort of fundamental intelligence and conscious purpose, some Logos steering the mighty movement. We have outgrown crude arguments from "design," and we cannot think of God as a foreign and external Creator, working as a Potter on his clay; but it ...

— Spiritual Reformers in the 16th & 17th Centuries • Rufus M. Jones

... among friends," cried Charley, holding up both empty hands palm upward as a token of peace. "You were grazed on the head by a rifle bullet and it knocked you out for a few minutes, so I went out in my canoe and towed you in. Your father is hurt pretty bad, but I have fixed him up good as I can and I think he ...

— The Boy Chums in the Forest - or Hunting for Plume Birds in the Florida Everglades • Wilmer M. Ely

... Jeremiah, the Lord said, "Verily it shall be well with thy remnant." Nay, more, He told him that He would give him his life for a prey whithersoever he went. And in 2 Kings xix. 30, we read: "And the remnant that is escaped of the House of Judah shall yet again take root downward, and bear fruit upward. For out of Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant and they that escape out of Mount Zion; the zeal of the Lord of hosts shall do this." And Ezekiel, in his captivity, sent forth a prophecy referring to the wicked prince, Zedekiah, saying of his throne in the name of Jehovah: ...

— The Lost Ten Tribes, and 1882 • Joseph Wild

... that rise upon the cheeks and over the frontal bone. These excrescences—if we may so call them—lend to the visage of the creature an aspect positively hideous, which is rendered still more ugly and fierce-looking by a pair of formidable tusks curving upward from each jaw. The body is nearly naked—excepting along the neck and back, where a long bristly mane gives a shaggy appearance to the animal—especially when these bristles, of nearly a foot in length, are erected under the impulse of rage. Other peculiarities are, a pair of whiskers of white ...

— Quadrupeds, What They Are and Where Found - A Book of Zoology for Boys • Mayne Reid

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