Meanings
alternative uswards
- archaicnot comparableToward us.
Then I, whose eyes were keen, saw, blown usward from Margny, a cloud of flying dust, that in Scotland we call stour.
1896, Andrew Lang, A Monk of Fife1 more example
But the Gods have sent him to usward to work us measureless good: It is even Sigurd the Volsung, the best man ever born, The man that the Gods withstand not, my friend, and my brother sworn."
1904, William Morris, The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs
Origin
- Middle Englishus-ward
- Englishusward
From Middle English us-ward; equivalent to us + -ward.
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