Leftwise

adj, adv

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Leftward, on the left side. rare

    "The leftwise action aims at what drifts out of the nunka domain of the nefarious. Similarly for mortuary arrangements, what is leftwise is more momentous than what is rightwise."

Adverb
  1. 1
    By a leftward path; leftwards, leftwardly; anticlockwise, counterclockwise. not-comparable, rare

    "and doing so they say that they do it themselves rightwise and the Hellenes leftwise."

Example

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"and doing so they say that they do it themselves rightwise and the Hellenes leftwise."

Etymology

From left + -wise.

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