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Definition of Earthward
1. adv. Toward the earth; -- opposed to heavenward or skyward.
Definition of Earthward
1. Adjective. Towards or in the direction of the earth. ¹
2. Adverb. Towards or in the direction of the earth. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Earthward
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Earthward
Literary usage of Earthward
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Æneid of Virgil by Virgil (1910)
"Her wings she spread, and earthward seemed to ride Upon a whirling storm. As when
some shaft, With Parthian poison tipped or Cretan gall, A barb of death ..."
2. The Methodist Review (1873)
"Perhaps our humility may be profitably directed earthward far enough to prevent
either of us from towering BO high in our denominational consciousness as to ..."
3. The Higher Christian Education by Benjamin Woodbridge Dwight (1874)
"Looking thus, from an earthward stand-point, upon the true sphere and scope of
the work of education, how vast do we find its dimensions ! and how ..."
4. Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern English and Foreign Sources by James Wood (1899)
"... take it in what sense you may, not in looking* earthward, does what we call
union, mutual love, society, begin to be possible. Carlyle. ..."
5. Harper's Cyclopaedia of British and American Poetry edited by Epes Sargent (1882)
"... Or shed a glory on thy earthward way:— О power of thought perverse and morbid
mood, Conspiring thus to numb and blind the heart ! ..."
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