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ˈrightward, adv. and a.
[f. right a. + -ward. Cf. leftward.]
A. adv.
1. On the right hand. Also to rightward of. rare.
1814Scott Ld. of Isles vi. xxiv, To rightward of the wild affray The field show'd fair and level way. a1843Southey (Ogilvie), Rightward and leftward rise the rocks.
2. In the direction of the right hand; towards the right. Also to rightward. Somewhat rare.
1814Cary Dante, Purg. xi. 49 Along the bank to rightward come with us. 1886W. R. Evans Walking Routes Ser. i. 20 Where the lane bends rightward, you see before you a park-gate. 1889Cornh. Mag. May 552 The face..looks rightward.
B. adj.
a. Tending or directed towards the right. spec. in political sense (see right n.1 17 d).
1825G. R. Gleig Subaltern xvi, The..division took a rightward course. 1885Myers in Proc. Psychical Res. Jan. 59 A hypnotic subject who..has been accustomed to write with her left-hand in ordinary rightward script. 1941‘G. Orwell’ in Partisan Rev. July–Aug. 319 The recent rightward swing means that we are being regimented by wealthy men and aristocrats rather than by representatives of the common people. 1972Sci. Amer. July 86/3 Usually a reader sees a page of text and moves his eyes over it, ordinarily in a rightward and downward direction. 1977Times 4 Oct. 14/1 A rightward trend towards the centre on the part of M. Mitterand.
b. rightward welding (see quots.).
1941A. C. Davies Sci. & Pract. Welding iii. 146 Rightward welding..was introduced some years ago to compete with electric arc welding in the welding of plate over 3/16 in. thick... In this method the weld progresses along the seam from left to right, the rod following the blowpipe. 1967M. D. Jackson Welding iv. 203 There are two methods of making downhand welds with the oxy-acetylene process and these are generally known as leftward welding or rightward welding, the terms being descriptive of the direction of welding. 1975Bram & Downs Manuf. Technol. ii. 48 In rightward welding the flame is directed towards the completed part of the joint and welding proceeds from left to right.
So ˈrightwards adv.
1865Masson Rec. Brit. Philos. 275 There has similarly been a drift rightwards. 1968Listener 7 Nov. 610/3 The novelist Kingsley Amis is regarded, by himself among others, as having moved ‘rightwards’ with the years. 1971P. Worsthorne Socialist Myth iii. 33 Any Labour Government has to lean over Rightwards to avoid being suspected of lack of patriotism. |