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/ˈɔnwərd/ Listen

adverb

Onward adv. Toward a point before or in front; forward; progressively; as, to move onward. "Not one looks backward, onward still he goes."

adjective

Onward adj.

Moving in a forward direction; tending toward a contemplated or desirable end; forward; as, an onward course, progress, etc.

Advanced in a forward direction or toward an end. "Within a while, Philoxenus came to see how onward the fruits were of his friend's labor."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Onward" Quotes from Famous Books

... the situation a very pleasant one for himself. Mazarin pushed him gently towards the door, saying, "Restore the peace of the realm." Marshal Meilleraie drew him onward. He went into the street, wearing his robe of office, and bestowing benedictions right and left, though while doing so his mind was busy in considering how he was going to get out of the difficulty ...

— Historical Tales, Vol. 6 (of 15) - The Romance of Reality. French. • Charles Morris

... reasonably plain. If the rank of animals in the aristocracy of nature were to be fixed by the remoteness of the period to which we know their ancestors, the deer would out-rank their bovine cousins by a full half of the Miocene period, and the study of fossils onward from this early beginning presents few clearer lines of evidence supporting modern theories respecting the development of species, than is shown in the increasing size and complexity of the antlers in succeeding ...

— American Big Game in Its Haunts • Various

... themselves into my—drawing out—even as were the flowered moss lands, the slicing, rocky walls—still another rampart of cliff, dwindling instantly into the vertical plane of those others. Our flight checked; we seemed to hover within, then to sway onward—slowly, cautiously. ...

— The Moon Pool • A. Merritt

... fence surrounded the property on three sides, the fourth being bounded by a sluggish, disreputable creek whose fetid waters seemed to crawl onward even more slowly after receiving the noisome waste liquor from the tan-pits. At only one point, that nearest the village, did any of the buildings touch the encircling fence. There its sweep was broken by the facade of a squat two-story structure of yellow brick which ...

— The Monk of Hambleton • Armstrong Livingston

... produced as our minds are stereotyped, as our most striking thoughts become truisms, and we lose the faculty of admiration. In our youth 'art woos us; science tempts us with her intricate labyrinths; each step presents unlooked-for vistas, and closes upon us our backward path. Our onward road is strange, obscure, and infinite. We are bewildered in a shadow, lost in a dream. Our perceptions have the brightness and indistinctness of a trance. Our continuity of consciousness is broken, crumbles, and falls to pieces. We go on learning and forgetting every hour. ...

— Hours in a Library - New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) • Leslie Stephen

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