Word Meanings - INWARDS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

INWARD; INWARDS
1. Toward the inside; toward the center or interior; as, to bend a thing inward. 2. Into, or toward, the mind or thoughts; inwardly; as, to turn the attention inward. So much the rather, thou Celestial Light, Shine inward. Milton.
INWARD
1. Being or placed within; inner; interior; -- opposed to outward. Milton. 2. Seated in the mind, heart, spirit, or soul. "Inward beauty." Shak. 3. Intimate; domestic; private. All my inward friends abhorred me. Job xix. 19. He had had occasion,
INWARDS
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INWARDNESS
1. Internal or true state; essential nature; as, the inwardness of conduct. Sense can not arrive to the inwardness Of things. Dr. H. More. 2. Intimacy; familiarity. Shak. 3. Heartiness; earnestness. What was wanted was more inwardness,
INWARDLY
1. In the inner parts; internally. Let Benedick, like covered fire, Consume away in sighs, waste inwardly. Shak. 2. Toward the center; inward; as, to curve inwardly. 3. In the heart or mind; mentally; privately; secretas, he inwardly repines. 4.
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