lifeward
lifeward adverb: towards life.
Adverb
lifeward (not comparable)
- Towards life.
- As all the forces of sin press downward and deathward, so all the forces of virtue press upward and lifeward.1874 December, The Unitarian Review and Religious Magazine, volume 2, page 443
- In this condition of the system, the internal forces of organs are so perfectly balanced, that a trifling incident may start them lifeward, or deathward.1894, The Encyclopaedia of Death and Life in the Spirit-world, page 292
Adjective
lifeward (not comparable)
- Leading towards life.
- Such a flood in earth shall be, / That every life that hath lifeward, / Beast and body with bone and blood, / They shall be stormed through stress of storm1825, Thomas Sharp, A Dissertation on the Pageants Or Dramatic Mysteries Anciently Performed at Coventry, by the Trading Companies of that City, page 224
- Therefore in every case the test is whether our particular intention is in this same lifeward direction: and if it is, then we may be absolutely certain that there is no intention on the part of the Universal Mind to thwart the intention of our own individual mind; we are dealing with a purely...1904, Thomas Troward, The Edinburgh Lectures on Mental Science
Antonyms of lifeward
Origin of lifeward
From life + -ward.
Questions about lifeward
- What does lifeward mean?
- Lifeward means towards life.
- What part of speech is lifeward?
- Lifeward can be an adverb or an adjective.
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