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Onward   /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.  
1.
Moving in a forward direction; tending toward a contemplated or desirable end; forward; as, an onward course, progress, etc.
2.
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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"Onward" Quotes from Famous Books



... however, are not given us; it is the result only that we know. But it is evident that the progress of his mind from the bog-region of orthodoxy to the high realms of thought and faith was a slow proceeding,—not rolled onward as with the chariot-wheels of a fierce and sudden revolution, but gradually developed in a long series of births, growths, and deaths. The theological phraseology sticks to him, indeed, even to the present time, although he puts it to new uses; and it acquires in his hands ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 1, Issue 2, December, 1857 • Various

... bearing, his personal habits, were no longer those of a young man; he walked with a stoop and pressed noticeably on the stick he carried; it was rare for him to show the countenance which tells of present cheerfulness or glad onward-looking; there was no spring in his step; his voice had fallen to a lower key, and often he spoke with that hesitation in choice of words which may be noticed in persons whom defeat has made self-distrustful. Ceaseless perplexity and ...
— New Grub Street • George Gissing

... often noticed, the pass between the more wild and the more fertile country, and must furnish, it was plausibly urged, a stronghold and place of rendezvous to the cavaliers and malignants of the district, supposing the insurgents were to march onward and leave it uninvested. This measure was particularly urged as necessary by Poundtext and those of his immediate followers, whose habitations and families might be exposed to great severities, if this strong place were permitted ...
— Old Mortality, Complete, Illustrated • Sir Walter Scott

... and his chum, as well as that of the "faultless dresser," as he hoped he appeared, brought them toward the girls. There was no escape, and the little throng walked onward. Betty kept close to Amy, for she knew just how she ...
— The Outdoor Girls of Deepdale • Laura Lee Hope

... way to where Grim might have his lair. Eid said he was most minded to think that Grim had his lair north on Twodays-Heath by the Fishwaters. Then Thorkell rode northward upon the heath the way which Eid did point out to him, and when he had got a long way onward over the heath he saw near some great water a hut, and makes his way ...
— Laxdaela Saga - Translated from the Icelandic • Anonymous


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