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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."

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Etymology of 'Upwards'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Upwards" Quotes from Famous Books

... Upwards of a hundred people—mostly of the lowest orders—were congregated before the senator's devoted dwelling. Some few among them passed slowly to and fro in the street, their figures gliding shadowy and solemn through the light around them; but the greater number ...

— Antonina • Wilkie Collins

... to pay only five dollars per month to able field hands, each laborer to furnish his own clothes and pay his own doctor bills. This, too, when these same planters used to pay or receive for the hire of these same laborers, the sum of fifteen dollars and upwards. In South Carolina, Gen. Rufus Saxton reports that the old planters are actually driving the freedmen to work in the fields in chain gangs, and that the woods are strewn with the bodies of negroes shot dead in their efforts to escape ...

— The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 2 of 2) • Ida Husted Harper

... consecrated by such distinguished service to thereafter descend to ordinary usage, and suiting the action to the word, flung the tumbler over his shoulder, so that it was shivered to atoms against the wall, the other guests, numbering upwards ...

— Life and sport in China - Second Edition • Oliver G. Ready

... reflected from this mirror accordingly as each undulation sloped east or west. They could see the rocky bottom some twenty feet beneath them, luxuriant with weeds of various growths, and dotted with pulpy creatures reflecting a silvery and spangled radiance upwards to their eyes. ...

— Desperate Remedies • Thomas Hardy

... exercises of the ancient Gymnasium, the pugilists were observed to become lean from their hips downwards, while the superior parts of their bodies, which they over-exercised, were prodigiously swollen; on the contrary, the racers were meagre upwards, while their feet acquired an unnatural dimension. The secret source of life seems to be carried forwards to those parts which are making ...

— Calamities and Quarrels of Authors • Isaac D'Israeli

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