sunward

comparative more sunward · superlative most sunward

1. Directed or turned toward the sun.

   On some days of autumn you may see the grass full of stringy lines of cobwebs that make a glistening path sunward.

   1896, Clifton Johnson, “The Weather”, in What They Say in New England (non-fiction), Boston, Massachusetts, United States: Lee and Shepard Publishers, page 31

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   His heart trembled; his breath came faster and a wild spirit passed over his limbs as though he were soaring sunward.

   1916, James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, New York, N.Y.: B[enjamin] W. Huebsch, →OCLC

   The surface, positively charged on the dawn side and negatively charged on the evening side, separates the regions of sunward and anti-sunward plasma

   1984, Laura R. Lyons, David J. Williams, Quantitative Aspects of Magnetospheric Physics

comparative more sunward · superlative most sunward

1. In the direction of the sun.

   fruits of the flower pushed sun-ward through wide cracks in concrete

   1986, Donald W. Woods, “Sister Lesbos”, in Joseph Beam, editor, In The Life: A Black Gay Anthology, page 104

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   To carry warfare sunward is, indeed, their only escape from the destruction that, generation after generation, creeps upon them.

   1898, H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann, page 4

   Synonyms: sunwards