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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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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Inward" Quotes from Famous Books

... best done in June. As soon as the madder plants are ten or twelve inches high, the tops are to be bent down on the surface of the ground, and all except the tip end covered with earth, shovelled from the middle of the alleys. Bend the shoots outward and inward in every direction, so as in time to fill all the vacant space on the beds, and about one foot on each side. After the first time covering, repeat the weeding when necessary, and run a single horse plough through the alleys several times to keep the earth ...

— The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom • P. L. Simmonds

... servility based upon conviction. He shattered faith in authority, because he restored the authority of faith. He transformed parsons into laymen, because he transformed laymen into parsons. He liberated men from outward religiosity, because he made religiosity an inward affair of the heart. He emancipated the body from chains, because he laid chains upon ...

— Selected Essays • Karl Marx

... telling me, the sovereign'st thing on earth Was parmaceti for an inward bruise; And that it was great pity, so it was, This villanous saltpetre should be digg'd Out of the bowels of the harmless earth, Which many a good tall fellow had destroy'd So cowardly; and but for these vile guns, He would himself have been ...

— Familiar Quotations • John Bartlett

... the body's actions, viz. the heavenly word, and so on, is acknowledged by all who admit the validity of the instruments of knowledge; analogously, therefore, we must admit that different from the knower whom we understand by the term 'I,' is the 'witnessing' inward Self. The non-intelligent ahamkra thus merely serves to manifest the nature of non-changing consciousness, and it effects this by being its abode; for it is the proper quality of manifesting agents ...

— The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Ramanuja - Sacred Books of the East, Volume 48 • Trans. George Thibaut

... to criticise, and it was so much the easier for him that he had not the least bent towards self-criticism. For the latter supposes some degree of truth in the inward parts, and that is obstructive to the indulgence of the former tendency. As to himself, he would be hand and glove at a moment's notice with any man who looked a gentleman, and made himself agreeable; nor whatever he might find him to be, was he, so long as the man was not looked ...

— Weighed and Wanting • George MacDonald

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