worldwardn.adv.adj.

c1450 (a1400) R. Lavynham Treat. Seven Deadly Sins (Harl. 211) (1956) 23 Þey schul haue no worschip of name to þe worldward, & also god schal hatyn hem.

1574 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Serm. on Job (new ed.) xxviii. 144 We shal not feele any thing saue that we indure to the world warde.

1587 Sir P. Sidney & A. Golding tr. P. de Mornay Trewnesse Christian Relig. xvi. 303 Considering man what hee is to Godward, to the worldward, to Manward and to himselfe.

a1639 W. Whately Prototypes (1640) i. vi. 82 Be not Hypocrites, satisfied with some externall shew of religiousnesse, and orderly living to the world-ward.

1651 J. Reading Guide to Holy City xix. 215 Another man riseth in honours..another is many waies prosperous to the world-ward.

a1617 P. Baynes Lectures 148 in Comm. First & Second Chapters Colossians (1634) Such as live worldward just, but have no oare of religion.

1628 T. Taylor Practise of Repentance xii. 131 Our selues without great watch..are easily carried away..; all our affections and thoughts, & courses, naturally tending world-ward.

1642 D. Rogers Naaman 45 Thoughts that were roving helward, worldward, and sinward.

1865 J. R. Lowell Thoreau in N. Amer. Rev. Oct. 601 Emerson..has drawn steadily manward and worldward.

1889 M. W. Knapp Out of Egypt vi. 91 They will long for others who will ‘give them a little rest on that subject’,..and perhaps lead them worldward.

1912 Syracuse (N.Y.) Herald 24 Nov. 4/6 And strong Achievement's envy, tares With laughing Joys and crowding Cares, Along the road that worldward leads—Once rank with foolish weeds.

1935 T. Wolfe Of Time & River i. 24 Like a dream made real, a magic come to life, he knew that in another hour he would be speeding world-ward, life-ward, North-ward.

2005 M. Krupnick Jewish Writing iii. 204 Certainly criticism needs to move worldward.

1848 Metropolitan 53 417 Yea, much to learn, and unlearn, boy, Upon thy worldward way.

1883 Evangelical Mag. Oct. 464 Such vanities had a worldward tendency.

1900 Longman's Mag. May 26 They chose a beggar from the world outside To keep their worldward door for them.

1958 M. Rukeyser Body of Waking 44 On the long worldward voyage flowing, horror gone down in birth, the curse, being changed, being used, is translated.

1988 R. Silverberg Secret Sharer 9 There would be no point in returning, since thousands of worldward years sweep by behind us as we make our voyages.