Meanings
- alternativenot comparableAlternative form of kingwards.
The K-K-koon shaft in their wrestle with a cranky pump and weak-kneed engine won the last fall, giving them two best in three, and they are again heading jack king[-]ward at a 2.40 gait.
1885 April 25, “Town Talk”, in Short Creek Republican, volume IV, number 20, Galena, Kan.3 more examples
All ye that scruple to believe, untill / Your sight convince your Reason ’gainst your will, / Go see your King do things all sence above, / And tell me then if that your hearts don’t move / Kingward, and whether you not think that He / Participates much of Divinity.
1660, Henry Oxinden, Charls Triumphant, &c., London, page 28It is not literature that speaks kingward, priestward, nobleward, systemward, formward; but it is literature which throws off all these things and issues as a winged creature from the shell of the past.
1891 July 7, “Literature Makes for Human Brotherhood”, in The Indianapolis News, volume XXII, Indianapolis, Ind., page 5But our nabobs are buried at public expense; their widows are supported in royal style at the public treasury; our tax[-]payers are buried in pottersfield, and we are traveling kingward.
1891 October 17, “What Fools These These Mortals Be”, in Caldwell Tribune, number 94, Caldwell, Ida.
Origin
- Middle EnglishKyng ward
- Englishkingward
From Middle English Kyng ward; equivalent to king + -ward.
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