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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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Etymology of 'Onward'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Onward" Quotes from Famous Books

... Alps to its grave in the sands of Holland, which boasts not its peculiar charms. By heavens! If I were a German I would be proud of it too; and of the clustering grapes, that hang about its temples, as it reels onward through vineyards, in a triumphal march, ...

— Hyperion • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

... to meet the Britons hand to hand, the Romans had to cross the river under a storm of darts. Many fell and were swept away by the current. Others struggled onward, to be received by savage cries from the Britons, who tore stones from the barricade to hurl at ...

— Stories from English History • Hilda T. Skae

... Now the heroes, when their return seemed safe for them, fared onward and made their hawsers fast to the land of the Hylleans. For the islands lay thick in the river and made the path dangerous for those who sailed thereby. Nor, as aforetime, did the Hylleans devise their ...

— The Argonautica • Apollonius Rhodius

... Pi doth water lie concealed which does not onward flow. There but remains a name and surname contained in an empty boat. When with a clamorous din the fire breaks out, the sad wind waxes cold. An endless host of eminent ...

— Hung Lou Meng, Book II • Cao Xueqin

... whether he judged it sufficient for her to know only the foul beginnings of his treason without being initiated into its wretched consummation; whether it was due to any of these reasons or simply to plain indifference or perhaps to both, he became unusually silent on this subject from this moment onward. It was enough for her to realize that he had been shabbily treated by the Congress and by the people, that he had long considered the American cause hopeless and had abandoned his interest in it on account of the recent alliance with the government of France. In her eyes he thought ...

— The Loyalist - A Story of the American Revolution • James Francis Barrett

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