单词 | onwardness |
释义 | onwardnessn. The state or condition of moving, pushing, or urging onward. Also: advance, progress; progression. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > continuing > progress, advance, or further continuance > [noun] > state of advancement towards completion towardness1475 forwardness1523 advancement1540 onwardness1548 towardliness1553 prolation1610 forwardliness1647 mid-career1720 advolution1883 1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Gal. in Paraphr. New Test. v. (R.) Yet is she not idle, but secretly worketh a vehement onwardnes to all godlynes. 1674 N. Fairfax Treat. Bulk & Selvedge 18 Gods outward or abstract is in an endless onwardness. 1844 A. Beresford-Hope Ess. 235 We find also..great firmness and onwardness of purpose. a1857 R. A. Vaughan Hours with Mystics (1860) I. vi. vi. 207 Was a certain mystic on the side of the truth and onwardness of his time, or against it? 1890 Scribner's Mag. Apr. 517/2 For all his stern onwardness of character.., Dr. Potterby had a gift for enjoyment. 1922 W. Stevens Comedian as Let. C in Coll. Poems (1954) vi. 45 Seraphic proclamations of the pure Delivered with a deluging onwardness. 1966 J. Fowles Magus xxvii. 155 I heard the driving onwardness of Bach, the endless progressions. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1548 |
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