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onward

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on·ward  (nwrd, ôn-)
adj.
Moving or tending forward.
adv. also on·wards (-wrdz)
In a direction or toward a position that is ahead in space or time; forward.

onward
Adjective
directed or moving forward
Adverb
also onwards
continuing; progressing
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adv.1.onward - forward in time or order or degree; "from that time forth"; "from the sixth century onward"
2.onward - in a forward direction; "go ahead"; "the train moved ahead slowly"; "the boat lurched ahead"; "moved onward into the forest"; "they went slowly forward in the mud"
Translations
onward [ˈɔnwəd], onwards [ˈɔnwədz] adv [move] → en avant;
from that time onwards → à partir de ce moment

onward [ˈɔnwəd], onwards [ˈɔnwədz] advweiter;
from that time onward(s) → von der Zeit an adjfortschreitend

onward [ˈɔnwəd], onwards [ˈɔnwədz] adv [move] → in avanti;
from this time onward(s) → d'ora in poi

onward(s) on


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I share with you this sense of oppressive narrowness; but it is necessary that we should feel it, if we care to understand how it acted on the lives of Tom and Maggie,--how it has acted on young natures in many generations, that in the onward tendency of human things have risen above the mental level of the generation before them, to which they have been nevertheless tied by the strongest fibres of their hearts.
Not only onward shalt thou propagate thyself, but upward
But from Homer onward, instances can be cited,--his own Margites, for example, and other similar compositions.
 
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