heavenwardn.adv.adj.

a1300 (c1275) Physiologus (1991) 129 Ne deme ðe noȝ[t] wurdi ðat tu dure loken Up to ðe heuene ward.

a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 3025 Moyses..warpes [perh. read warp es] vt til heuene-ward.

a1375 (c1350) William of Palerne (1867) 102 To-heuene-ward he loked.

a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) v. 730 Hou such thing to the heveneward Among the goddes myhte falle.

c1450 (?a1400) Sege Melayne (1880) 135 He sawe a bryghtenes of a beme Vp vn-to hevenwarde glyde.

c1450 Jacob's Well (1900) 172 Þin herte is raysyd in sorwe in heueneward.

a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1593) iii. sig. Gg5^v Your heads to heau'nwarde heaue.

1635 W. Habington Castara (ed. 2) ii. 130 When Pelion..saw, that raine which fell But now from angry Heaven, to Heaven ward swell.

1626 R. Bolton Some Gen. Direct. for Comfortable Walking with God (ed. 2) 65 Such fixed considerations as these, of things aboue, will serue as notable helpes to draw and keepe thy heart Heauen-ward.

1646 W. Jenkyn Reformation's Remora 28 Shall we run with the swiftness of the Roe earthward, and go a dull Asses trot heaven~ward?

1681 J. Flavell Method of Grace xxxi. 533 They would move..heaven-ward.

1720 A. Pope tr. Homer Iliad V. xxi. 530 We heav'nward fled with swiftest wing.

1785 W. Cowper Task vi. 818 Heav'n~ward all things tend.

1838 M. Fuller Woman in 19th Cent. (1862) 360 Above the heavenward-pointing spire.

1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. xvi. 106 The other summits, without a trace of cloud..pointed heavenward.

1925 Amer. Mercury Feb. 136/2 They have rolled their eyes heavenward and proclaimed that they were only applying his principle in all its pristine purity.

1966 A. Ginsberg Wichita Vortex Sutra 407 Houseless brown farmland plains rolling heavenward.

2006 Chicago Tribune (Midwest ed.) 15 Oct. i. 6/1 He awaits the moment when Carpe Diem, his homemade, 18-foot rocket hurls itself heavenward.

1796 R. Southey Joan of Arc v. 24 The reverend man..with heaven-ward eye Call'd on the God of Justice.

1799 T. Campbell Pleasures of Hope & Other Poems ii I smile on death, if Heaven-ward Hope remain.

1831 N. P. Willis Poem at Brown University 32 A heavenward spirit, straying oftentimes, But never widely.

1862 H. B. Stowe Agnes of Sorrento xi. 142 The very natural need of personal pastoral guidance and assistance to a soul in its heavenward journey.

1930 R. Campbell Adamastor 88 Partaking the strain of the heavenward pride That soars me away from the earth I deride.

1965 B. Sweet-Escott Baker St. Irregular iv. 114 The ‘skip’ was explained..as being the heavenward arc made by the path of the waves emitted by the short-wave transmitters.

2007 Los Angeles Times (Nexis) 20 Mar. e1 A warrior with steel-cut abs girded by a leather codpiece whose NFL-ready soldiers rally behind him with a..heavenward pump of the fist.

1848 P. J. Bailey Festus (ed. 3) 202 Echoes of Light, reacting heavenwardly.

1935 Ada (Okla.) Weekly News 29 Aug. 7/8 Heavenwardly she set her goal.

2005 Topeka (Kansas) Capital-Jrnl. (Nexis) 13 Feb. e2 Its windows rose heavenwardly and let in so much light that the interior of the chapel could be seen.

1838 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 44 612 The expansivity and soaring heavenwardness of the gases.

1993 A. S. Kidder tr. R. Panikkar Dwelling Place for Wisdom iv. 123 (heading) The Jordan: water, faith, event, religiosity, heavenwardness—exclusivism.