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adjective

Inward adj.

Being or placed within; inner; interior; opposed to outward.

Seated in the mind, heart, spirit, or soul. "Inward beauty."

Intimate; domestic; private. (Obs.) "All my inward friends abhorred me." "He had had occasion, by one very inward with him, to know in part the discourse of his life."

adverb

Inwards, Inward adv.

Toward the inside; toward the center or interior; as, to bend a thing inward.

Into, or toward, the mind or thoughts; inwardly; as, to turn the attention inward. "So much the rather, thou Celestial Light, Shine inward."

noun

Inward n.

That which is inward or within; especially, in the plural, the inner parts or organs of the body; the viscera. "Then sacrificing, laid the inwards and their fat."

The mental faculties; usually pl. (Obs.)

An intimate or familiar friend or acquaintance. (Obs.) "I was an inward of his."

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Etymology of 'Inward'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Inward" Quotes from Famous Books

... the senses first awaken. At this critical moment, when nature claims us for her service, the consciousness of spiritual things is, in most cases, either eclipsed or totally destroyed. The gradual usage to the brutalities of the instinct ends by killing the sensitiveness of the inward feelings. It is not reason which turns the young man from God; it is the flesh. Scepticism but provides him with excuses for the new life ...

— Saint Augustin • Louis Bertrand

... wouldst assure thy selfe my counsels true; Hee (too late) finding her upon her knees In Church, where yet her husbands coorse she sees, Hearing the Sermon at his funerall, Longing to behold his buriall, This sutor being toucht with inward love, Approached neare his lovely sute to move, Then stooping downe he whispered in her eare Saying he bore her love, as might appeare, In that so soone he shewed his love unto her, Before any else did app[r]och to woo her, Alass (said she) your labour is in vaine, Last night ...

— Shakespeare Jest-Books; - Reprints of the Early and Very Rare Jest-Books Supposed - to Have Been Used by Shakespeare • Unknown

... ventured on deck that day—for the weather was so thick that there was nothing to see, beyond an occasional buoy marking out the position of a sandbank, a grimy Geordie, loaded down to her covering-board, driving along up the river under a brace of patched and sooty topsails, or an inward-bound south-spainer in tow of a tug; but this fact of her being the only representative of her sex on deck appeared to disconcert Miss Onslow not at all; she was as absolutely self-possessed as though she and the general ...

— The Castaways • Harry Collingwood

... knowing how to appreciate an image of Christ on the cross, in understanding the attitudes of Faith, Hope and Charity. We can note a mother's affection by the way she holds her child in her arms. We can judge of the sincerity of the friend who grasps our hand. If he holds the thumb inward and pendant, it is a fatal sign; we no longer trust him. To pray with the thumbs inward and swaying to and fro, indicates a lack of sacred fervor. It is a corpse who prays. If you pray with the arms extended and the fingers bent, there ...

— Delsarte System of Oratory • Various

... first place through constant confession, for which there were innumerable prescriptions and formulae which seemed to the heart empty and cold. By strictly prescribed activities and the practice of so-called good works, the feeling of real atonement and inward peace had not come to the young man. Finally a saying of his spiritual adviser pierced his heart like an arrow: "That alone is true penance which begins with love for God. Love for God and inward exaltation is not the result of the means of grace which the Church ...

— The German Classics Of The Nineteenth And Twentieth Centuries, Volume 12 • Various

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