Londonward

adj, adv

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Facing or moving toward the city of London. not-comparable

    "[…] she watched his lordship’s travelling-carriage rolling once more along the Londonward level of the park […]"

Adverb
  1. 1
    Toward the city of London. not-comparable

    "[15th c., Nicholas Harris Nicolas (ed.), A Chronicle of London, from 1089 to 1483, written in the fifteenth century, London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green, 1827, p. 85, And thanne the kyng and the duke and the othere seid lordes reden in fere to Londonward: and in the firste day of Septembre they comen to London everych on: and in the morwe suynge kyng Richard was put into the tour of London tyl tyme that the parlement, whiche began at Westm’ on seynt Jeromys day the laste day of Septembre […]]"

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"[15th c., Nicholas Harris Nicolas (ed.), A Chronicle of London, from 1089 to 1483, written in the fifteenth century, London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green, 1827, p. 85, And thanne the kyng and the duke and the othere seid lordes reden in fere to Londonward: and in the firste day of Septembre they comen to London everych on: and in the morwe suynge kyng Richard was put into the tour of London tyl tyme that the parlement, whiche began at Westm’ on seynt Jeromys day the laste day of Septembre […]]"

Etymology

From London + -ward.

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