heavenwardsn.adv.

1614 T. Wilson Comm. Epist. S. Paul to Romanes v. vi. 291 Nature..with litle helpe of grace, can reare it selfe to heauenwards.

1650 W. Brough Sacred Princ. To Rdr. sig. A2^v Using them..as..Guides and Helps to Heaven-wards.

1643 J. Caryl Expos. 3 First Chaps. Iob i. 62 All the people that were present did lift-up their hands and their eyes, but especially their soules and their spirits heaven-wards.

1670 T. Brooks Wks. (1867) VI. 229 What trade did you drive Christ-wards, and heaven-wards, and holiness-wards?

1713 J. Adamson Two Serm. ii. 33 To keep our Minds Heavenwards, to be dead to Sin.

1788 R. Hill Deep Things of God cxvi. 114 They would soar heavenwards, and enjoy communion and fellowship with their Lord.

1860 E. B. Pusey Minor Prophets 418 Weighing it down that it should not rise Heavenwards.

a1882 A. Trollope Autobiogr. (1883) II. xviii. 173 These earthly sufferers know that they are making their way heavenwards,—and their oppressors their way elsewards.

1917 L. Hourticq Art in France i. 9 All those pointed forms which soared heavenwards in the mediæval town, were reared by daring carpenters on the massive structures of Roman architecture.

1959 Burlington Mag. Jan. 39/2 Casting his eyes heavenwards, he takes on himself the whole burden of vainglorious humanity.

2002 Independent 28 Sept. (Mag.) 14/1 Britain has a growing band of ‘severe weather’ enthusiasts..whose idea of a good time consists largely of..leaping out at crucial moments to gawp heavenwards.