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Outward
Definitions
- 1 Outer; located towards the outside.
- 2 Visible, noticeable.
"By all outward indications, he's a normal happy child, but if you talk to him, you will soon realize he has some psychological problems."
- 3 Tending to the exterior or outside.
"The fire will force its outward way."
- 4 Foreign; not civil or intestine. obsolete
"an outward war"
- 1 relating to physical reality rather than with thoughts or the mind wordnet
- 2 that is going out or leaving wordnet
- 1 Towards the outside; away from the centre.
"We are outward bound."
- 2 Outwardly, in outer appearances; publicly. obsolete
"ANd thenne the quene lete make a preuy dyner in london vnto the knyȝtes of the round table / and al was for to shewe outward that she had as grete Ioye in al other knyghtes of the table round as she had in sir launcelot / al only at that dyner she had sir Gawayne and his bretheren"
- 3 Away from home.
- 1 toward the outside wordnet
- 1 A ward in a detached building connected with a hospital.
- 1 To ward off; to keep out. obsolete, rare
"Ne any armour could his dint out-ward; / But wheresoever it did light, it throughly shard."
Etymology
From Middle English outward, from Old English ūtweard, equivalent to out + -ward.
From Middle English outward, from Old English ūtweard, equivalent to out + -ward.
From out- + ward.
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