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In the direction of.
(ux)
(w), (w) xxiv. 1
- He set his face toward the wilderness.
(RQ:Vance Nobody)
- Turning back, then, toward the basement staircase, she began to grope her way through blinding darkness, but had taken only a few uncertain steps when, of a sudden, she stopped short and for a little stood like a stricken thing, quite motionless save that she quaked to her very marrow in the grasp of a great and enervating fear.
In relation to (someone or something).
(w), (w)
- His eye shall be evil toward his brother.
For the purpose of attaining (an aim).
Located close to; near (a time or place).
(w) (1667–1745)
- I am toward nine years older since I left you.
puhekieltä future Future; to come.
1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.iv:
- ere that wished day his beame disclosd, / He either enuying my toward good, / Or of himselfe to treason ill disposd / One day vnto me came in friendly mood ....
puhekieltä approaching Approaching, coming near; impending; present, at hand.
Shakespeare
- Do you hear aught, sir, of a battle toward?
1843, w:Thomas_Carlyle Thomas Carlyle, :w:Past and Present (book)|Past and Present, book 2, ch. XV, Practical — Devotional
- On the morrow … :w:Samson of Tottington|our Lord Abbot orders the Cellerarius to send off his carpenters to demolish the said structure brevi manu, and lay up the wood in safe keeping. Old Dean Herbert, hearing what was toward, comes tottering along hither, to plead humbly for himself and his mill.
yielding Yielding, pliant; docile; ready or apt to learn; not froward.
puhekieltä promising Promising, likely; froward.
Why, that is spoken like a toward prince. ― Shakespeare.
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